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Dorothy Porter

DP

17

Publications

953

Citations

14

H-Index

1972

Active since

Affiliations

Birkbeck, University of London(Current)

University College London

Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine

Dorothy Porter is an author at Birkbeck, University of London specializing in medical history, social sciences, and medicine.

Top concepts

Medical HistoryMedicineSocial SciencesHealthHuman HealthPublic HealthHealth PoliticsCultural HistorySurgerySociology

Publications per year

1972–2021

17

Publications

17

Health, Civilization and the State: A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times

Gerald Markowitz, Dorothy Porter · Journal of Public Health Policy · 2000 · 295 citations

Modern Times, Health Policy, Public Health System +8

The politics of prevention: Anti-vaccinationism and public health in nineteenth-century England

Dorothy Porter, Roy Porter · Medical History · 1988 · 166 citations · Full text

In Sickness and in Health: The British Experience, 1650-1850

James C. Riley, Roy Porter, Dorothy Porter · The Journal of Interdisciplinary History · 1991 · 81 citations

Medical History, Medicalization, Cultural History +2

Patient's Progress: Doctors and Doctoring in Eighteenth-century England.

Julius A. Roth, Dorothy Porter, Roy Porter · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1990 · 75 citations

Humanity And Medicine, Eighteenth-century England, Medical History +2

What Was Social Medicine? An Historiographical Essay

Dorothy Porter, Roy Porter · Journal of Historical Sociology · 1988 · 49 citations

Humanity And Medicine, Sociology, Medical History +2

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