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Preliminary Material --Mikuláš Teich: A Biographical Sketch /Kurt Bayertz and Roy Porter --Business History: Cinderella, Prince Charming or Ugly Sister? /Terry Gourvish --Darwin's Revolution /Robert N. Proctor --The different faces of science: is genetics a social construct? /Benno Müller-Hill --Bare Heads against Red Hats: a Portrait of Paracelsus /Charles Webster --Science - Education and Culture. Ideas and Concepts of German Nineteenth Century Scientists /Dietrich von Engelhardt --Thomas George Hodgkins (1803-92) and the future of Research at the Royal Institution (London) and the Smithsonian Institution (Washington) /William H. Brock --Biology as Technology /Kurt Bayertz and Patricia Nevers --From the "Originary Phenomenon" to the "System of Pelagic Fishery": Johannes Muller (1801-1858) and the Relation Between Physiology and Philosophy /Hans-Jörg Rheinberger --A Male Mind in a Female Body: Sexology, Homosexuality and the Woman Question in Germany, 1869-1914 /Katharina Rowold --The Naturalist Tradition: A Natural History /Paul Lawrence Farber --Medicine, the Body, and the Botanical Metaphor in Erotica /Julie Peakman --Biology of Liberation: Some Historical Aspects of "Proletarian Race Hygienics" /Reinhard Mocek --Credit and Resistance: Eijkman and the Transformation of Beri-Beri into a Vitamin Deficiency Disease /Harmke Kamminga --Gout and Quakery; Or, Banks and Mountebanks /Roy Porter --Notes on Contributors /Kurt Bayertz and Roy Porter --Mikuláš Teich: Bibliography /Kurt Bayertz and Roy Porter.
About the author
Roy Sydney Porter was born December 31, 1946. He grew up in a south London working class home. He attended Wilson's Grammar School, Camberwell, and won an unheard of scholarship to Cambridge. His starred double first in history at Cambridge University (1968) led to a junior research fellowship at his college, Christ's, followed by a teaching post at Churchill College, Cambridge. His Ph.D. thesis, published as The Making Of Geology (1977), became the first of more than 100 books that he wrote or edited. Porter was a Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Churchill College, Cambridge from 1972 to 1979; Dean from 1977 to 1979; Assistant Lecturer in European History at Cambridge University from 1974 to 1977, Lecturer from 1977 to 1979. He joined the Wellcome Institute fot the History of Medicine in 1979 where he was a Senior Lecturer from 1979 to 1991, a Reader from 1991 to 1993, and finally a Professor in the Social History of Medicine from 1993 to 2001. Porter was Elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1994, and he was also made an honorary fellow by both the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Roy Porter died March 4, 2002, at the age of 55.
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