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PORTER, ROY: : BODIES POLITIC - Disease,Death and Doctors in Britain,1650-1900

US.ITHACA,NEW YORK.CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS,2001.

ISBN 0801439531.

US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Originally published Reaktion Books,London.This the simultaneous (?) US issue/edn.] FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip - absence of publisher's price. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour facsimile illustration reproduction illustrated front panel of dw/dj with pink,blue and black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.One small nick to front,lower edge of dw/dj,top 1/3rd of spine slightly sunned/faded and some minimal creasing along top edges of dw/dj and some light,superficial scoring to rear panel of dw/dj.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain beige endpapers.US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,8- 328pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,a preface,an introductory,9 other chapters and an afterword,profusely illustrated with 17th to 20thC b/w (the majority)+colour facsimile illustration reproductions throughout the text and the book,references,a select bibliography, photographic acknowledgements,an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title,b/w illustrated title page,contents list/table,and epigrams (3). The renowned historian Roy Porter here takes us on an entertaining trip through more than two hundred years of visual and verbal accounts of the body and medicine.Focusing his attention for the first time on visual imagery,Porter examines the ways in which the sick and their healers were represented to the culture at large from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. The author combines erudition,a sharp sense of humour,and abundant art to show how contrasting conceptions of the healthy and diseased body were mapped onto anti-ethical notions of the good and the bad,the beautiful and the ugly.He juxtaposes images of disease to illustrations of medical practice,exploring self-presentations by physicians,surgeons,and quacks and showing how practioners' public identities changed over time. 'Bodies Politic' argues that the human body is the chief signifier and communicator of all manner of meanings - religious,moral,political, and medical alike - and that pre-scientific medicine was an art that depended heavily on performance,ritual,rhetoric,and theatre. Throughout,Porter makes clear the wide metaphorical and symbolic implications of disease and doctoring. The author or editor of more than seventy-five books,Roy Porter is Professor of the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine,Oxford.His books include 'Gout: The Patrician Malady (with G.S. Rousseau). 'Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World','Quacks,Fakers and Charlatans in English Medicine' and 'London: A Social History.'. Please contact seller,because of the weight - just under 1Kg before packaging and the value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

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