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	Kenan Malik's review of 'The Greatest Benefit to Mankind' by Roy Porter
		To understand the contradictory nature of contemporary medicine, Roy Porter suggests, we have to understand its historical context, to understand the evolution of the relationship between medicine and society.
		Porter begins his medical odyssey in ancient Greece with the first attempts to replace supernatural with naturalistic explanations for disease and illness.
		The history of medicine, Porter writes, can only be understood as 'The symbiosis of disease with society, the dialectic of challenge and adaptation, success and failure.' One may not always agree with Porter's answers to the dilemmas facing contemporary medicine, but his magnificent book nudges us towards asking the right questions.
	www.kenanmalik.com /reviews/benefit.html (1670 words)

	Roy Porter: 1923-1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Porter was born in a small mining town, but moved to Colorado Springs with his mother at the age of 8, following the death of his father.
		Porter was again the drummer at the ill-fated second session on 29 July, 1946, when Parker, barely able to hold his horn, faltered painfully through a notorious version of "Loverman" and two other even more fraught tunes, in what was the immediate prelude to his being committed to Camarillo State Hospital.
		The economics of running such a band eventually defeated the project, and the master tapes of some of the already limited number of recordings which it made were destroyed in a fire, adding to the bitter disappointment for the drummer.
	www.jazzhouse.org /gone/lastpost2.php3?edit=920543830 (518 words)

	Porter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Porter - member of staff in many of the colleges of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford
		Porter, Inc - a manufacturer of small railroad locomotives.
		Porter College - a residential college at the University of California, Santa Cruz
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Porter (199 words)

	K E E P I N T I M E : A MOCHILLA FILM
		Roy Porter was born in Colorado in 1923.
		In the late sixties he formed the Roy Porter Sound Machine and recorded several funk albums.
		Roy had been really excited to participate in “Keepintime” – but sadly he passed away in 1997 before we were able to find funding.
	www.mochilla.com /keepintime/bios/roy_porter.htm (178 words)

	Alibris: Roy Porter
		Porter's charting of the history of medicine affords readers the opportunity as never before to assess its culture and science and its costs and benefits to humankind.
		With his characteristic wit and vastly informed historical scope, Porter examines the war fought between disease and doctors on the battleground of the flesh from ancient times to the present.
		Roy Porter touches the pulse of his hometown and makes it our own, capturing London's fortunes, people, and imperial glory with vigor and wit.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Roy_Porter (1109 words)

	Alliance for Human Research Protection - Professor Roy Porter-Greatest Benefit to Mankind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Roy took his historical scholarship seriously - from 1993 until last year, he was professor of the social history of medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine - but he became something of a populist as he grew older.
		Roy's preferred transport was the bicycle he was found beside en route to his allotment.
		Roy Porter, the historian who for 20 years astonished the literary world with his tireless high quality output, died yesterday at the age of 55.
	www.ahrp.org /cms/content/view/298/80 (2453 words)

	Amazon.com: The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity: Books: Roy Porter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Roy Porter, a social historian of medicine the London's Wellcome Institute, has written an dauntingly thick history of how medical thinking and practice has risen to the challenges of disease through the centuries.
		Porter is straightforward about his deliberate focus on Western medical traditions, citing their predominant influence on global medicine, and with The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, he has produced a volume worthy of that tradition's legacy.
		Roy has an erudite style and a level of detail that makes this book both a joy to read and a reference to use frequently.
	www.amazon.com /Greatest-Benefit-Mankind-Medical-Humanity/dp/0393319806 (1826 words)

	Harvard University Press/London
		Roy Porter is Professor of Medical History at University College, London, and Research Fellow at the Wellcome Institute.
		Roy Porter paints a detailed landscape--from the grid streets and fortresses of Julius Caesar and William the Conqueror to the medieval, walled "most noble city" of churches, friars, and crown and town relationships.
		It was a mosaic, Porter shows, that represented the shared values of a people--both high and low born--at work and play.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/PORLON.html (330 words)

	Roy Porter - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Roy Porter accomplished so much in such a short period of time that it is surprising how brief his jazz career actually was.
		Porter worked with Teddy Bunn in 1944, gigged frequently with Howard McGhee (with whom he made his first recordings in 1945) and in..
		In 1991 Roy Porter (with the assistance of writer David Keller) came out with his memoirs, There And Back.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,480606,00.html (363 words)

	Roy Porter -- Bynum 324 (7338): 680 -- BMJ
		Roy Porter -- Bynum 324 (7338): 680 -- BMJ
		Although Roy became the pre-eminent medical historian of his generation, he never lost his early identity as a generalist.
		Roy was aware, of course, of his own brilliance, but he was entirely without vanity or arrogance.
	bmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/324/7338/680 (728 words)

	Roy Porter -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Roy Porter (31 December 1946 to 3 March 2002) was a (The people of Great Britain) British (A person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it) historian noted for his work on the (additional info and facts about history of medicine) history of medicine.
		He grew up in (additional info and facts about South London) South London and attended Wilson's grammar school in (additional info and facts about Camberwell) Camberwell.
		He also wrote and lectured on the history of (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/roy_porter.htm (308 words)

	ear fuzz
		Abandoning his be-bop roots, Porter assembled a band and recorded the album Jessica in 1971, which was the beginning in his development of the funk.
		Porter was enthusiastic about the merging of hip hop and jazz, and turned many producers on to Bop and encouraged them to sample his music.
		Porter is one of those artists who often gets lost in the shuffle of larger more well-known musicians, but for many his contributions to jazz and hip hop hardly go unnoticed.
	www.earfuzz.com (2309 words)

	Biblio: Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine by Porter, Roy, Dr: Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		British medical historian Roy Porter (1946-2002) surveys Western medicine from antiquity to the present.
		Porter delivers his usual historically informed, extremely intelligent thinking in chapters dedicated to different subtopics, such as the body, disease, doctors, and surgery, with a writing style that is informal and accessible.
		With his characteristic wit and vastly informed historical scope, Roy Porter examines the war fought between disease and doctors on the battleground of the flesh from ancient times to the present.
	www.biblio.com /books/isbnnu/32774625.html (291 words)

	Madness: A Brief History (Roy Porter) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The amount of information that Roy Porter put into this book was amazing.
		I am one person who really feels that understand medical and social history is the only way that we can avoid the mistakes of the past, and work towards making the future as equitable in treatment and understanding towards those with mental illness as we can.
		But Porter not only gives enough information and color to this particular problem, he also gives a wonderful bibliography/reference to refer to if the reader wishes to read about any particular time or problem.
	www.interference.com /webstore/us/product/0192802674.htm (503 words)

	Roy Porter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Roy Richard Grinker - In the Arms of Africa :Colin M Turnbull
		Roy Porter Mikulas Teich - Sexual Knowledge Sexual Science The History of Attitudes to Sexuality
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	www.freebookessay.com /209765_roy-porter.html (172 words)

	Roy Porter Lecture 2006
		The Roy Porter Lecture for 2006, 'Scientists, sea-trials and international espionage: who really invented the balance-spring watch?', will be delivered by Professor Lisa Jardine on Wednesday 26 April.
		The lecture series was established in 2003 in memory of UCL's Professor Roy Porter, an eminent historian of medicine, science and the Enlightenment, and a well-loved character within the UCL community and international academic circles.
		Roy Porter obituary (The Guardian: 5 March 2002)
	www.wellcome.ac.uk /doc_WTX031045.html (235 words)

	Harvard University Press/London/Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		In this big book, London-born Roy Porter presents a social historian's guide to his native city.
		Porter's aim, which he achieves splendidly, is to show the interaction between the city's people, its economy and the built environment...This truly fine book includes many excellent illustrations.
		It is important because it makes the whole sweep of London's unique history comprehensible and accessible in a way that no previous writer has ever managed to accomplish...For cities, like nations, can only be understood in an historical perspective.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /reviews/PORLON_R.html (365 words)

	Powell's Books - Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul by Roy Porter
		Starting with the revolutionary ideas of the Renaissance that challenged the sense of the body as a corrupt vessel for the soul, Roy Porter goes on to chart how — through figures as diverse as Locke, Swift, Johnson, and Gibbon — ideas about medicine, politics, and religion fundamentally changed notions of self.
		And Porter explores how, at the end of the century, the human soul took on a new significance in the works of Godwin, Blake, and Byron.
		The late Roy Porter was professor in the social history of medicine at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London.
	powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=719&cgi=product&isbn=0393050750 (353 words)

	Society for the Social History of Medicine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		This prize will be awarded to the best original, unpublished essay in the social history of medicine submitted to the competition as judged by the SSHM's assessment panel.
		It is named in honour of the late Professor Roy Porter, a great teacher and a generous scholar.
		The competition is open to undergraduate and post-graduate students in full or part-time education.
	www.sshm.org /prize/prize.html (154 words)

	New Statesman: Crazy for you: Psychosis; Roy Porter welcomes the demise of the mad genius - The Arts - Psychosis: a ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		New Statesman: Crazy for you: Psychosis; Roy Porter welcomes the demise of the mad genius - The Arts - Psychosis: a brief history
		The loss may be cause for relief, but it is disorienting all the same to our ways of thinking about madness.
		Roy Porter's Madness: a brief history is published by Oxford University Press ([pounds sterling]11.99)
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4575_131/ai_83678225 (1220 words)

	Porter, Roy Sydney -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		He was also a famous wit who established a literary reputation through a longtime association with The Edinburgh Review.
		Born on June 9, 1893, in Peru, Ind., Cole Porter wrote his first successful Broadway musical, ‘Fifty Million Frenchmen', in 1929.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9389553 (652 words)

	Research Associates
		The aim is to write a 'biography' of the disease in British India, against the backdrop of international concern with malaria and its control.
		However, during this period he continued to work part-time on the histories of psychiatry and legal medicine, while developing new interests in the histories of public health and tropical medicine, as well as the history of medical and health-related film and television.
		Since 2000 she has worked on a number of public engagement projects including the award winning website HistoryWorld, the annotated bibliography of Roy Porter’s works available on this site, and a film, Secrets of the Body, for museums, libraries, health and community centres, and other public venues.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /histmed/people/research-associates/index.html (3267 words)

	Roy Porter - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
		Roy Porter - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK home
		Roy Porter was until his retirement Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London.
		His books include London: A Social History, English Society in the Eighteenth Century and Enlightenment, which was the winner of a 2001 Wolfson Prize.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000025717,00.html?sym=QUE (444 words)

	Earliest recordings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The two altos trade licks on Sippin' with Cisco, and one gets an idea of how Eric's sound developed and relates to Sweetpea Robinson, who Roy Porter once told me was a fantastic player but who died young, I believe in an auto accident.
		Roy Porter now has an autobiography out in which he agrees with Simosko.
		Roy Porter was trying to get these released.
	adale.org /Discographies/EarlyRec.html (2489 words)

	Scripps Howard Foundation: Programs and Projects
		2006 trip to a part of the world that was of particular interest to Roy W. Howard.
		They learned about Roy Howard’s 1933 interview with the Emperor of Japan, the first ever by an American.
		The Roy W. Howard winners enjoyed a cruise in Tokyo.
	foundation.scripps.com /foundation/programs/rwh/rwh.html (276 words)

	Books by Roy Porter, compare prices
		by Roy Porter (Editor), W.F Bynum (Editor), Symposium on Medicine And the Five Sense (Editor)
		by Roy Porter, Celina Fox, Ralph Hyde, Sheila O'Connell
		by Roy Porter, Celina Fox, Ralph Hyde, British Museum, Sheila O'Connell
	www.allbookstores.com /browse/Author/Porter,%20Roy (165 words)

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