Flesh In The Age Of Reason by Roy Porter

Flesh In The Age Of Reason

Roy Porter

573 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy science informative slow-paced

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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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