Roy Porter

Roy Porter (1946-2002) studied History at the University of Cambridge, where he later taught as the head of the History department until 1979. He then moved to the Wellcome Institute at the University of London as a professor of Social History. He is considered one of the most important historians of the History of Medicine and the Enlightenment. He is particularly known for his pioneering research, which focused more on patients rather than the practice of doctors. He specialized in Social History and the History of the 18th-century Enlightenment. With an extensive body of work, he authored over twenty books, among the most recent of which are: "Flesh in the Age of Reason," "The Cambridge History of Medicine," and "Bodies Politic: Disease, Death, and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900."