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573 pages • hardcover • first pub 2003 • 6 editions
ISBN/UID: 9780393050752
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
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"Starting with the grim Britain of the Civil War era, with its punishing sense of the body as a corrupt vessel for the soul, Roy Porter charts how, through figures as diverse as Locke, Swift, Johnson, and Gibbon, ideas about medicine, politics, an...
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573 pages • hardcover • 2003
ISBN/UID: 9780393050752
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
"Starting with the grim Britain of the Civil War era, with its punishing sense of the body as a corrupt vessel for the soul, Roy Porter charts how, through figures as diverse as Locke, Swift, Johnson, and Gibbon, ideas about medicine, politics, an...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings