Flesh in the Age of ReasonPenguin UK, 2005/01/27 - 592 ページ 'As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives, this book can find few equals and no superiors. Porter is a witty, humane writer with an extraordinary vocabulary and a sparkling sense of fun. Whether he is quoting from obscure medical texts or analysing scabrous diaries, dishing the dirt on long-dead bigwigs or evoking sympathy for human suffering, his grasp is masterly and his erudition appealing. I wish I could read it again for the first time: you can.' Times Educational Supplement, Book of the Week |
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... ? Were the passions to be tamed, or could they be trusted, as part of the wisdom of the body? Was there a vis medicatrix naturae, a healing power of Nature, which would preserve life against disease and dissolution? Not.
Roy Porter. Nature, which would preserve life against disease and dissolution? Not least – profanely Promethean thought! – was there any escape from the doom of death? The body Christian, the body pagan; the body medical, the body ...
... disease; and death might well be nigh. Letters and diaries – to say nothing of Swift's satires or the cartoons of Hogarth and Gillray – document at length and with passion the intense repugnance people so frequently felt towards their ...
... disease was a regular irregularity. That view was indicative of a bid by a corps of physicians to present themselves as superior to the existing mishmash of soothsayers, magicians, quacks and folk practitioners, those practising what ...
... disease theory late, but in the Hippocratic On the Nature of Man, it assumed the status of an essential, if mainly deleterious, humour. Visible in vomit and excreta, it was thought of as responsible for the dark hue of dried.
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SCIENCE RESCUES THE SPIRIT | |
JOHN LOCKE REWRITES THE SOUL | |
THE POLITE SELF IN THE POLITE BODY | |
NIGHTMARE SELVES 10 JOHNSON AND INCORPORATED MINDS 11 EDWARD GIBBON FAME AND MORTALITY | |