Cambridge History of Medicine

Roy Porter (1946-2002), Professor Emeritus of the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Trust Center for the History of Medicine at the University College London, was the author of over 200 books and articles, including Doctor of Society: Thomas Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late Enlightenment England (1991), London: A Social History (1994), The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (1997), and Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900 (2001).Porter, Roy is the author of 'Cambridge History of Medicine', published 2006 under ISBN 9780521682893 and ISBN 0521682894.