Bodies Politic

In earlier books, the late Roy Porter has reviewed the British medical world of the long eighteenth century: the relations of patients with their physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, specialists, quacks, and other members of the medical fringe; the social position of these practitioners; concepts of illness, disease, and death; and [End Page 822] the varieties of therapeutic procedures. Now he has returned once more to this period, enlarging it to the years between 1650 and 1900, emphasizing the visual record along with the written and the interplay between the two, and stressing the reinforcement of verbal with visual forms. The 137 images (39 in color), interspersed with Porter's zestful text, provide a well-balanced study of the years when William Hogarth, James Gillray (see figure), Thomas Rowlandson, and the three Cruikshanks joined with poets, novelists, and literary critics in creating a noteworthy cultural age

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