Roy Porter

History of medicine.

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine Roy Porter, Editor Against the backdrop of an unprecedented concern for health today, The Cambridge Illustrated History ofMedicine not only surveys the rise of medicine in the West from earliest times to the present day, but also glimpses into the future. It is written by a team of experts coordinated by one of the most distinguished and prolific wr...

Obituary: Roy Sydney Porter (1946-2002).

The effect of redistribution on migration: Evidence from the Israeli kibbutz

☆ This paper was previously circulated as: “Testing Adeline Delavande, Zvi Eckstein, Joe Ferrie, Avner Greif Rob Porter, William Rogerson, Izi Sin, Kathy Spier, Luis grateful to Raj Chetty (the editor) and to two anonymo Institute for Economic Research in Israel, and the Sapi E-mail address: [email protected]. 1 See, for example Epple and Romer (1991), Feldste 2 This model of self-selection o...

The Turn of the Body: History and the Politics of the Corporeal1

The last few decades of the twentieth century witnessed the body moving from no one’s particular concern to virtually everyone’s preoccupation – including historians. Roy Porter writing on the history of the body in the revised second edition of Peter Burke’s New Perspectives on Historical Writing declared that “body history” had become the “historiographical dish of the day” (Porter, 2001, 236...

Disease, Medicine and Society in England 1550–1860

ROY PORTER, Disease, Medicine and Society in England 1550-1860, Studies in Economic and Social History for the Economic History Society, Basingstoke and London, Macmillan Education, 1987, 8vo, pp. 79, £3.95 (paperback). In this thought-provoking and eloquent survey (intended largely as an introductory text for students and teachers) Roy Porter has examined a number of interconnected themes in t...