Bodies politic : disease, death and doctors in Britain, 1650-1900 / Roy Porter.

Bodies politic : disease, death and doctors in Britain, 1650-1900 / Roy Porter.

In a historical tour de force, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in death, disease and health, and at images of the healing arts in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth century. Porter's key assumptions are that the human body is the chief signifier an...

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Main Author: Porter, Roy, 1946-2002
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Reaktion, 2001.
Series:Picturing history.
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Medicine > Great Britain > History.
Medicine > Great Britain > History > Pictorial works.
Physicians > Great Britain > History.
Physicians > Great Britain > History > Pictorial works.
Death > Great Britain > History.
Death > Great Britain > History > Pictorial works.
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