Brain 2004 127(10):2378-2380; doi:10.1093/brain/awh305
Brain Vol. 127 No. 10 © Guarantors of Brain 2004; all rights reserved
FLESH IN THE AGE OF REASON
Roy Porter
2003. Allen Lane
Price £25.00. ISBN 0713-99149-6
Valerie Grosvenor Myer
Ely, UK, E-mail: vwg20@cam.ac.uk
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‘What became of soul, I wonder?’?
(Title is taken from Robert Browning's poem ‘A Toccata of Galuppi’s’)
By the late 18th century, the clergyman
at the bedside of the dying was largely replaced by the doctor;
death was considered less of a portal to life eternal, as it
had previously been, than as a ‘framing device to life’.
This is the thesis put forward by the late Roy Porter, formerly
Professor in the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome
Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College,
London, and editor of the Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine.
Porter is the historian of the mind, especially the treatment
of the insane, and of body–mind relations or, as we call
it, the self. He earned a worldwide reputation for his massive
erudition, light touch and learned wit. This brilliant book
charts the change from a view of humankind as
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