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Bodies politic

disease, death and doctors in Britain, 1650-1900

by Roy Sydney Porter

2001 328 pages eng

"In a historical tour be 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 beginning of the twentieth century. Roy Porter's two key assumptions are, first, that the human b…

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