Medicine, Madness and Social History

Note on Contributors/Remembering Roy Porter Introduction: 'De omni scribili'; J.Pickstone & R.Bivins Roy Porter and the Persons of History; H.Cook PART 1: THE SCIENCE OF HISTORY AND THE POLITICS OF SCIENCE Porter vs. Foucault on 'Birth of the clinic'; A.Wilson The New History of the Enlightenment: An essay in the social history of social history; P.Burke The Politics of Particularism: Medicalization and Medical Reform in 19th century Britain; I.Burney Charles Babbage and George Birkbeck: Science, Reform and Radicalism; D.Porter PART 2: BODIES, COMMODITIES AND SOCIAL DIFFERENCE French Dentists and English Teeth in the Long 18th Century; C.Jones Hotbeds and Cool Fruits: The Unnatural Cultivation of the Eighteenth Century Cucumber; A.Secord Arguing disability: ex-servicemen's own stories in early modern England, 1590-1790; G.Hudson Lunacy and Labouring Men: Narratives of Male Vulnerability in Mid-Victorian London; A.Suzuki "Arrows of Desire": British Sexual Utopians and the Politics of Health; L.Hall "Twenty centuries of Christianity weigh heavily on women's brains": Anarchism, Female Education, and Women's Nature at the turn of the Twentieth Century; K.Rowold "A band of lunatics down Camberwell way": Percy Lane Oliver and Voluntary Blood Donation in Interwar Britain; K.Pelis PART 3: MINDS, IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL ORDER Mind, Body and the Insanity Defence in 18th c. Hamburg; M.Lindemann "One of the best known identity crises in history"? John Stuart Mill's Mental Crisis and its Meaning; C.Sengoopta Murder by Hypnosis? Altered States and the Mental Geography of Science; E.Lafferton Maladies of the Will: Freedom, Fetters and the Fear of Freud; D.Pick Two cultures revisited: the case of the fin de siecle; M.Micale Roy; B.Bynum