Roy Sydney Porter 26 books History Science & Technology Philosophy Biography & Memoir Psychology Literary Fiction British historian Books by Roy Sydney Porter The confinement of the insane The facts of life The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography Companion encyclopedia of the history of medicine Sexual knowledge, sexual science Rewriting the Self Literature & medicine during the eighteenth century A dictionary of eighteenth-century world history Doctor of society Dictionary of the history of science The Cambridge History of Medicine The Faber book of madness The Western medical tradition Medicine and the five senses Oxford dictionary of scientific quotations Flesh in the Age of Reason The biographical dictionary of scientists The industrial revolution in national context Discovering the history of psychiatry The National question in Europe in historical context The Cambridge illustrated history of medicine The Popularization of medicine, 1650-1850 Nature and society in historical context The greatest benefit to mankind The Reformation in national context The ferment of knowlege