Volume 51, Number 7 · April 29, 2004
Body and Soul
By P.N. Furbank
Flesh in the Age of Reason
by Roy Porter, with a foreword by Simon Schama
Norton, 574 pp., $29.95
At his tragic and unexplained death in 2002, Roy Porter, the much-admired historian of medicine, author of The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity and many other works, left a manuscript of his latest book complete in its text, though needing more work on its endnotes. But according to a 'Publisher's Note,' it proved impossible to reconstruct his sources and references, since he often worked from various different editions of the same text, so the book has had to be published without its notes. In compensation it has been furnished with an enormous, eighty-page, 'secondary' bibliography.
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