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Medicine, madness and social history : essays in honour of Roy Porter / edited by Roberta Bivins and John V. Pickstone.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--History.
- Medicine.
- History.
- Mental illness--History.
- Mental illness.
- Social history.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- x, 295 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Summary:
- Honoring and extending the work of historian Roy Porter, this volume offers lively, accessible and often topical chapters presenting orginal research on the social history of medicine, madness and the Enlightenment.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-282) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780230525498
- 0230525490
- OCLC:
- 85828867
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