The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 4, Eighteenth-Century Science by Roy Porter
This volume offers to general and specialist readers alike the fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century, exploring the implications of the 'scientific revolution' of the previous century and the major new growth-points, particularly in the experimental sciences. It is designed to be read as both a narrative and an interpretation, and also used as a work of reference. While prime attention is paid to western science, space is also given to science in traditional cultures and colonial science. The coverage strikes a balance between analysis of the cognitive dimension of science itself and interpretation of its wider social, economic and cultural significance. The contributors, world leaders in their respective specialities, engage with current historiographical and methodological controversies and strike out on positions of their own.
'… [A] rich collection of material …' The Times Literary Supplement
'… historians of medicine will undoubtedly find this a useful reference book for help in contextualizing their teaching and researchIt achieves Porter's intention of providing a stable platform upon which scholarship on the nineteenth century can be built.' William H. Brock, Medical History
'… contains excellent chapters and it will be very useful as a guide within the world of history of science …' Ambix
'… historians of medicine will undoubtedly find this a useful reference book for help in contextualizing their teaching and researchIt achieves Porter's intention of providing a stable platform upon which scholarship on the nineteenth century can be built.' William H. Brock, Medical History
'… contains excellent chapters and it will be very useful as a guide within the world of history of science …' Ambix
Roy Porter zahlt zu den renommiertesten Medizinhistorikern der Welt. Er war Professor fur Sozialgeschichte der Medizin am Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London und hat zahlreiche Bucher zu medizin- und sozialgeschichtlichen Themen verfasst und herausgegeben. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte waren die Medizin des 18. Jahrhunderts, die Geschichte der Psychiatrie und die Geschichte der Quacksalberei. Dietrich von Engelhardt charakterisiert ihn in seinem Geleitwort zum vorliegenden Buch so: >>Porter, produktiv und vital im Gesprach, im Vortrag wie im literarischen Schaffen, ist ein profunder und geistreicher Kenner der historischen Entwicklung der Medizin und gehort zu jenen Medizinhistorikern der Gegenwart, die stets die immanenten Dimensionen der Medizin mit den sozialkulturellen Hintergrunden in Verbindung bringen.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521572439 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521572436 |
| Title | The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 4, Eighteenth-Century Science |
| Author | Roy Porter |
| Series | The Cambridge History Of Science |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2003-03-17 |
| Number of pages | 942 |
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