Roy Porter

Roy Porter, who died in March 2002, was a regular, much admired and much envied contributor to the LRB: he was the author of an astonishing number of books, including London: A Social History (1994), The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (1997) and Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (2000).

In the LRB Archive:

• F for Felon: Policing and Punishment in London 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror by J.M. Beattie. · 4 April 2002

  • Policing and Punishment in London 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror by J.M. Beattie

• The Need for Buddies · 22 June 2000

  • British Clubs and Societies 1580-1800: The Origins of an Associational World by Peter Clark

• Tissue Wars on HIV and Aids · 2 March 2000

  • The River: A Journey Back to the Source of HIV and Aids by Edward Hooper

• Why Mr Fax got it wrong on population history · 5 March 1998

  • English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580-1837 by E.A. Wrigley and R.S. Davies
  • The Savage Wars of Peace: England, Japan and the Malthusian Trap by Alan Macfarlane

• A Simple Fellow Given to Blowing at Feathers, Exploited by His Grasping Brothers · 8 May 1997

  • From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency: Historical Perspectives on People with Learning Disabilities edited by David Wright and Anne Digby

• I ain’t a child · 5 September 1996

  • Growing Up Poor: Home, School and Street 1870-1914 by Anna Davin

• Oh, My Aching Back · 2 November 1995

  • The History of Pain by Roselyne Rey, translated by Elliott Wallace and J.A. Cadden, and S.W. Cadden

• Give Pot a Chance · 8 June 1995

  • Marihuana: The Forbidden Medicine by Lester Grinspoon, edited by James Bakalar

• Before Foucault · 25 January 1990

  • The Normal and the Pathological by Georges Canguilhem, translated by Carolyn Fawcett and Robert Cohen

• Confounding Malthus · 21 December 1989

  • Health and the Rise of Civilisation by Mark Nathan Cohen
  • Nutrition and Economic Development in the 18th-Century Habsburg Monarchy: An Anthropomorphic History by John Komlos

• Body History · 31 August 1989

  • The Body and the French Revolution: Sex, Class and Political Culture by Dorinda Outram
  • Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories by Barbara Gates
  • Sexual Visions: Images of Gender in Science and Medicine between the 18th and 20th Centuries by Ludmilla Jordanova
  • Family, Love and Work in the Lives of Victorian Gentlewomen by Jeanne Peterson

• Mix ’n’ match · 19 January 1989

  • The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Vol. I: Theory, Vol. II by Liu Yanchi, translated by Fang Tingyu and Chen Laidi
  • Traditional Medicine in Contemporary China by Nathan Sivin

• Sex in the head · 7 July 1988

  • The History of Sexuality. Vol. III: The Care of Self by Michel Foucault, translator Robert Hurley

• Is there a health crisis? · 19 May 1988

  • The Public Health Challenge edited by Stephen Farrow
  • The Truth about the Aids Panic by Michael Fitzpatrick and Don Milligan
  • Dangerous Sexualities: Medico-Moral Politics in England since 1830 by Frank Mort
  • Medicine and Labour: The Politics of a Profession by Steve Watkins

• Esprit de Corps · 21 January 1988

  • Granville Sharp Pattison: Anatomist and Antagonist 1791-1851 by F.L.M. Pattison
  • Death, Dissection and the Destitute by Ruth Richardson

• Disease and the Marketplace · 26 November 1987

  • Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years 1830-1910 by Richard Evans

• Signor Cock · 25 June 1987

  • Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin

• Almighty Gould · 23 April 1987

  • Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time by Stephen Jay Gould

• Prinney, Boney, Boot · 20 March 1986

  • The English Satirical Print 1600-1832 edited by Michael Duffy

• A loaf here, a fish there · 15 November 1984

  • Science and Medicine in France: The Emergence of Experimental Physiology 1790-1855 by John Lesch
  • Georges Cuvier: Vocation, Science and Authority in Post-Revolutionary France by Dorinda Outram

• Viva la joia · 22 December 1983

  • Montaigne: Essays in Reading edited by Gérard Defaux
  • Montaigne and Melancholy: The Wisdom of the ‘Essays’ by M.A. Screech

• England’s Ideology · 5 August 1982

  • Coram’s Children: The London Foundling Hospital in the 18th Century by Ruth McClure
  • Children of the Empire by Gillian Wagner

• Castaway · 4 March 1982

  • The Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, Vol. I 1750-1781, Vol. II 1782-1786 edited by James King and Charles Ryskamp
  • The Poems of William Cowper: Vol. 1 1748-1782 edited by John Baird and Charles Ryskamp

• English Marxists in dispute · 17 July 1980

  • Arguments within English Marxism by Perry Anderson
  • Capitalism, State Formation and Marxist Theory edited by Philip Corrigan
  • Writing by Candlelight by E.P. Thompson

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