Roy Porter
Roy Porter (d. 31 Aralık 1946 - ö. 3 Mart 2002) tıp tarihi üzerine yapmış olduğu çalışmalarla tanınmış İngiliz tarihçidir. Londra'da doğmuş, büyümüş ve eğitim almıştır. 1993 yılında görevli olduğu üniversitede profesörlüğe yükselmiş, 2001 Eylülü'nde emekliye ayrılmış, birkaç ay sonra bir kalp krizi sonucu yaşamını yitirmiştir. 100'ün üzerinde kitabın yazımında veya editörlüğünde bulunmuştur. Porter, Londra Tarihi hakkında da büyük çaplı araştırmalar yürütmüştür.[1]
Hayatı boyunca 4 kez evlenmiştir, ilk olarak Sue Limb ile (1970), sonra Jacqueline Rainfray ile (1983), sonra Dorothy Watkins ile (1987) ve son olarak Hannah Augstein ile evlenmiştir. Hayatının son zamanlarını ise Natsu Hattori ile geçirmiştir. Çok az uykuya ihtiyacı olduğu bilinmektedir.[2]
Roy Porter birçok televizyon ve radyo programında yer almıştır. BBC Radyo 3' Nightwaves'in orijinal sunucusudur.
Çalışmaları
Bilim tarihi üzerine kitapları
- The Making of Geology: Earth Science in Britain, 1660–1815 (Cambridge ve New York, 1977; 1980'de tekrar basıldı.) (9780521215213)
- The Earth Sciences: An Annotated Bibliography (New York ve Londra, 1983) (9780824092672)
- Man Masters Nature: Twenty-Five Centuries of Science (1989) 978-0-8076-1233-0
- Porter, Roy, (Ed.) (2003). Eighteenth-Century Science. The Cambridge History of Science. 4. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521572439.
Tıp tarihi üzerine kitapları
- The History of Medicine: Past, Present and Future (Uppsala, 1983)
- A Social History of Madness: Stories of the Insane (Londra, 1987; 1989; 1996) (9780297792239)
- Disease, Medicine, and Society in England, 1550–1860 (Londra, 1987; Basingstoke, 1993; Cambridge, 1995) (9780333398654)
- Mind-Forg'd Manacles: A History of Madness in England from the Restoration to the Regency (Londra, 1987; 1990) (9780485113242)
- Health for Sale: Quackery in England, 1660–1850 (Manchester ve New York, 1989) (9780719019036)
- Doctor of Society: Thomas Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late Enlightenment England (Londra, 1991)
- The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (Londra, 1997; 1999) 978-0-393-04634-2
- Nicholas Venette: Conjugal Love (1983) 978-0-86245-107-3
- Anatomy of Madness (1985) 978-0-317-19358-9
- Disease, Medicine, and Society in England, 1550–1860 (1995) 978-0-521-55262-2
- The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine (1996) 978-0-521-44211-4
- A Social History of Madness: The World Through the Eyes of the Insane (1988) 978-1-55584-185-0
- Bodies Politic: Disease, Death, and Doctors in Britain, 1650–1900 (2001) 978-0-8014-3953-7
- Madness: A Brief History (2002) 978-0-19-280266-8[3]
- Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine (2003) 978-0-393-03762-3[4]
- Flesh in the Age of Reason (2004) 978-0-393-05075-2
- The Cambridge History of Medicine (2006) 978-0-521-86426-8
- Madmen: A Social History of Madhouses, Mad-Doctors and Lunatics (2006) 978-0-7524-3730-9
Aydınlanma üzerine kitapları
- Edward Gibbon: Making History (London, 1988) (9780297793373)
- The Enlightenment (Basingstoke, 1990; 2001)
- Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (Londra, 2000) (9780713991529)
- Published in the USA as The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment (New York, 2000) (9780393048728)
Sosyal tarih üzerine kitapları
- English Society in the Eighteenth Century (Londra, 1982; Harmondsworth, 1990) (9780140220995)
- London: A Social History (Londra, 1994; 1996; 2000) (9780674538382)
- The Rise and Fall of London's Town Centres: Lessons for the Future (Londra, 1996) (9781899626250)
History Today Makaleleri
- "Under the influence": mesmerism in England (Eylül 1985)
- The Rise and Fall of the Age of Miracles (Kasım 1996)
- Bethlam/Bedlam: Methods of Madness? (Ekim 1997)
- Reading is Bad for your Health (Mart 1998)
- Matrix of modernity – Roy Porter discusses how the British Enlightenment paved the way for the creation of the modern world (Nisan 2001)
- The body politic: diseases and discourses – Roy Porter shows how 18th-century images of the medical profession flow over into the work of political caricaturists (Ekim 2001)
Eş-yazarı olduğu kitaplar
Editörü olduğu kitaplar
- The Ferment of Knowledge: Studies in the Historiography of Eighteenth-Century Science, G. S. Rousseau ile birlikte (1980) 978-0-521-22599-1
- Dictionary of the History of Science, W. F. Bynum ve E. J. Browne ile birlikte (1981) 978-0-691-08287-5
- The Enlightenment in National Context, Mikulás̆ Teich ile birlikte (1981) 978-0-521-23757-4
- Contributed essay, 'The Enlightenment in England'
- The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry, 3 cilt, W. F. Bynum ve Michael Shepherd ile birlikte (1985) 978-0-422-79430-5
- Volume I: People and Ideas – contributed essay 'The Hunger of Imagination: approaching Samuel Johnson's melancholy'
- Revolution in History, Mikulás̆ Teich ile birlikte (1986) 978-0-521-25978-1
- Contributed essay, 'The scientific revolution: a spoke in the wheel?'
- Problems and Methods in the History of Medicine, Andrew Wear ile birlikte (1987) 978-0-7099-3687-9
- The Social History of Language, Peter Burke ile birlikte (1987) 978-0-521-30158-9
- Drugs and Narcotics in History, Mikulás̆ Teich ile birlikte (1988) 978-0-521-43163-7
- Romanticism in National Context, Mikulás̆ Teich ile birlikte (1988) 978-0-521-32605-6
- Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment, G. S. Rousseau ile birlikte (1988) 978-0-8078-1782-7
- The Dialectics of Friendship, Sylvana Tomaselli ile birlikte (1989) 978-0-415-01751-0
- The Hospital in History, Lindsay Patricia Granshaw ile birlikte (1989) 978-0-415-00375-9
- Exoticism in the Enlightenment, G. S. Rousseau ile birlikte (1989) 978-0-7190-2677-5
- Fin de Siècle and its Legacy, Mikulás̆ Teich ile birlikte (1990) 978-0-521-34108-0
- The Popularization of Medicine, 1650–1850 (1992) 978-0-415-07217-5
- The Renaissance in National Context, Mikulás̆ Teich ile birlikte (1992) 978-0-521-36181-1
- The Scientific Revolution in National Context, Mikulás̆ Teich ile birlikte (1992) 978-0-521-39510-6
- Consumption and the World of Goods, John Brewer ile birlikte (1993) 978-0-415-03712-9
- Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine, W. F. Bynum ile birlikte (1993) 978-0-415-04771-5
- A Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century World History, Jeremy Black ile birlikte (1994) 978-0-631-18068-5
- The Biographical History of Scientists (1994) 978-0-19-521083-5
- Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science: The History of Attitudes to Sexuality, Mikulás̆ Teich ile birlikte (1994) 978-0-521-44434-7
- Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth-Century Domains, Christopher Fox ve Robert Wokler ile birlikte (1995) 978-0-520-20010-4
- Languages and Jargons: Contributions Towards the Social History of Language, Peter Burke ile birlikte (1995) 978-0-7456-1279-9
- Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century, Marie Mulvey Roberts ile birlikte (1996) 978-0-8147-6644-6
- Nature and Society in Historical Context, Mikulás̆ Teich ve Bo Gustafsson ile birlikte (1997) 978-0-521-49530-1
- From Physico-Theology to Bio-Technology: Essays in the Social and Cultural History of Biosciences, Kurt Bayertz ile birlikte (1998)978-9042005013
- Also contributed essay 'Gout and quackery; or, banks and mountebanks'
- Toleration in Enlightenment Europe, Ole Peter Grell ile birlikte (2000) 978-0-521-65196-7
- The Confinement of the Insane: International Perspectives, 1800–1965, David Wright ile birlikte (2003) 978-0-521-80206-2
- Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations, W. F. Bynum ile birlikte (2005) 978-0-19-858409-4
Roy Porter hakkındaki kitaplar
- Remembering Roy Porter (2002, The Wellcome Trust)
- Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter (2007) 9780230525498
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