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- W2483243313 abstract "It is notable that two of the books Roy Porter wrote late in his shortened life, The Enlightenment and Flesh in the Age of Reason,1 were the ones he cared about most — or so he told friends and colleagues at the time. More clearly than in many of his other works, they show him engaging with age-old problems about the nature of humanity: the relationships between mind and body, reason and flesh, spiritual journeys and material conditions, the conscious self that senses its ability to make free choices and the passionate will that knows it is trapped by nature’s laws. From this perspective, it is easy to see why he turned to the study of the history of medicine with such enthusiasm after being persuaded to come to the Wellcome Institute in 1979, for not only were medical people themselves often impelled to consider such problems carefully and to write about them suggestively, but a range of topics within the medical field brought them into relief. Were diseases caused by forces beyond our control or by bad behaviour? Were institutions like the early modern madhouse really meant to care for their inmates, to salve the consciences of the great and the good, or to remove difficult characters from families and communities? Did medical innovations lead to better health or line the pockets of those who sold the treatments? The whole range of life — from comedy to tragedy, from money-grubbing to sincere philanthropy, from material interests to religious persuasion, from biology to philosophy — is at the medical historian’s disposal, and for someone with an appetite for historical curiosities as large as Roy’s, and for cocking a snoot at the overly self-assured, medical history was a playground." @default.
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