Porter, Roy

Porter, Roy, Health for Sale Quackery in England 1660—i8 o (Manchester, 1989). 

Porter, Roy. Science, Provincial Culture and Public Opinion in Enlightenment England. British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 3, 1980, 20-46. Porter, Roy, and Mikulas Teich, eds. The Enlightenment in National Context (Cambridge University Press, 1981). 

Porter, Roy. Medicine and the Decline of Magic. Cheiron Newsletter European Society for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences (Spring, 1988), 40-6. 

Porter, Roy, ed. (1994). Cori, Carl Ferdinand and Gerty Theresa, in The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists, 2nd editon, p. 144. New York Oxford University Press. 

Porter, Roy, ed. 2003. The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 4. Eighteenth-Century Science. Cambridge Cambridge University Press. 

Porter, Roy. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind A Medical History of Humanity, from Antiquity to the Present. New York W. W. Norton, 1997. 

Porter, Roy (ed.)(1994) Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Abingdon Helicon Publishing Ltd. 

Porter, Roy and Mikulas Teich (eds.) (1992), Scientific Revolution in National Context. Cambridge Cambridge University Press. 

Bos, H. J. M. "Mathematics and Rational Mechanics." In The Ferment of Knowledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Science. Ed. G. S. Rousseau and Roy Porter. Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. 327355. 

Most chemical carcinogens have been identified from epidemiological studies, for which incidence of cancer is linked to a particular occupation or lifestyle (Table 21.6). Such studies are enormously beneficial, because identification of a risk factor can lead to changes in behaviour which decrease the incidence of cancer. This is illustrated by a quotation from Roy Porter s book. Greatest Benefit to Mankind (1999) ... 

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