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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... writing is so exhilarating that it is often difficult to resist smiling at its sheer brio. For Roy Porter, historical prose was never a workaday thing, but in this book, where all of his passions and preoccupations are in overdrive, he ...
... Writing began during the first year of its successor, the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London, and it has been completed in the months following my retirement. I am deeply grateful for the ...
... writings and systematized by Galen, retained its hold throughout the Middle Ages into early modern times. It was rich, inclusive and flexible; it codified common sense and was open to minor alterations. It was first comprehensively ...
... writings threw down a challenge to investigators of all convictions to locate where and how consciousness acted within the organism, indeed within the brain. Might such thinking be the slippery slope to reducing the soul to the brain or ...
... writings of the physician Sir Thomas Browne who, in Religio Medici (1642) and elsewhere, took fideistic pleasure in its mysteries. But all such homage to the autonomous and pre-eminent soul was brought down to earth by a fly in the ...
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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 | |