- For the American jazz drummer, see Roy Porter (drummer).
Roy Sydney Porter[1] (31 December 1946 — 3 March 2002) was a British historian noted for his prolific work on the history of medicine.
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Life [link]
Porter grew up in South London and attended Wilson's School in Camberwell.[2] He won a scholarship to Christ's College, Cambridge, where he studied under J. H. Plumb.[1] His contemporaries included Simon Schama and Andrew Wheatcroft. He achieved a double starred first[2][3] and became a junior Fellow in 1968, studying under Robert M. Young and lecturing on the British Enlightenment.[1] In 1972, he moved to Churchill College as the Director of Studies in History, later becoming Dean in 1977.[2][3] He received his doctorate in 1974, publishing a thesis on the history of geology as a scientific discipline.[4] He was then appointed to the post of Assistant Lecturer in European History at Cambridge University and promoted to Lecturer in European History in 1977.[4]
In 1979 he joined the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (part of the University College, London) as a lecturer. In 1993 he became Professor of Social History at the Institute.[2][3] He briefly served as its Director. In 2000, Porter published The Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World. He retired in September 2001, moving to the Sussex coast, where he wanted to learn to play the saxophone, cultivate his allotment and engage in some travelling.[1][4][5] He died of a heart attack five months later, while cycling.[5] His memorial service was on April 22, 2002 at St Pancras Parish Church.[5]
He was married four times in his life, firstly to Sue Limb (1970), then Jacqueline Rainfray (1983), then Dorothy Watkins (1987) and finally Hannah Augstein.[2][4] At the time of his death, his partner was Natsu Hattori.[1][3]
He was known for the fact that he needed very little sleep.[2][3][5]
Media appearances [link]
Roy Porter made many television and radio appearances. He was an original presenter of BBC Radio 3's Nightwaves,[2] a programme on which he was scheduled to appear, discussing doctors in literature, at the point of his death.[1]
He also spoke at a large variety of events, and was known for his oratory talents.[4]
Honours [link]
Roy Porter was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1994, and was made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Psychiatrists.[3][4][5]
A plaque for the memory of Roy Porter was unveiled by the Mayor of Lewisham in a ceremony that took place on Thursday 5 June at 13 Camplin Street, New Cross Gate, London.[6]
Works [link]
Starting with the publishing of his PhD thesis, as The Making of Geology in 1977, Porter wrote or edited over 100 books,[3][4] an academic output that was, and is, considered remarkable.[1][3] He is particularly notable for his work in the history of medicine, in pioneering an approach that focuses on patients rather than doctors.[2][3] Despite his recognition in the history of medicine, he is quoted as saying, "I'm not really a medical historian. I'm a social historian and an 18th century man".[5] In addition to the history of medicine and other sciences, he specialised in the social history of 18th-century Britain and the Enlightenment. He also wrote and lectured on the history of London. With G. E. Berrios, Porter published A History of Clinical Psychiatry (1985) and co-edited the international journal History of Psychiatry (1989).[7] He also edited the journal History of Science for many years.[2][5]
In 2007 Roberta Bivins and John V. Pickstone edited Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter (Palgrave Macmillan). Several of the essays address Porter's work directly, and William F. Bynum appends a biographical sketch.
On the history of science [link]
- The Making of Geology: Earth Science in Britain, 1660-1815 (Cambridge and New York, 1977; reprinted 1980) (ISBN 9780521215213)
- The Earth Sciences: An Annotated Bibliography (New York and London, 1983) (ISBN 9780824092672)
- Man Masters Nature: Twenty-Five Centuries of Science (1989) ISBN 978-0-8076-1233-0
On the history of medicine [link]
- The History of Medicine: Past, Present and Future (Uppsala, 1983)
- A Social History of Madness: Stories of the Insane (London, 1987; 1989; 1996) (ISBN 9780297792239)
- Disease, Medicine, and Society in England, 1550-1860 (London, 1987; Basingstoke, 1993; Cambridge, 1995) (ISBN 9780333398654)
- Mind-Forg'd Manacles: A History of Madness in England from the Restoration to the Regency (London, 1987; 1990) (ISBN 9780485113242)
- Health for Sale: Quackery in England, 1660-1850 (Manchester and New York, 1989) (ISBN 9780719019036)
- Doctor of Society: Thomas Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late Enlightenment England (London, 1991)
- The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (London, 1997; 1999) ISBN 978-0-393-04634-2
- Nicholas Venette: Conjugal Love (1983) ISBN 978-0-86245-107-3
- Anatomy of Madness (1985) ISBN 978-0-317-19358-9
- Disease, Medicine, and Society in England, 1550-1860 (1995) ISBN 978-0-521-55262-2
- The Cambridge Illustrated History of Medicine (1996) ISBN 978-0-521-44211-4
- A Social History of Madness: The World Through the Eyes of the Insane (1988) ISBN 978-1-55584-185-0
- Bodies Politic: Disease, Death, and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900 (2001) ISBN 978-0-8014-3953-7
- Madness: A Brief History (2002) ISBN 978-0-19-280266-8
- Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine (2003) ISBN 978-0-393-03762-3
- Flesh in the Age of Reason (2004) ISBN 978-0-393-05075-2
- The Cambridge History of Medicine (2006) ISBN 978-0-521-86426-8
- Madmen: A Social History of Madhouses, Mad-Doctors and Lunatics (2006) ISBN 978-0-7524-3730-9
On the Enlightenment [link]
- Edward Gibbon: Making History (London, 1988) (ISBN 9780297793373)
- The Enlightenment (Basingstoke, 1990; 2001)
- Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (London, 2000) (ISBN 9780713991529)
- Published in the USA as The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment (New York, 2000) (ISBN 9780393048728)
On social history [link]
- English Society in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1982; Harmondsworth, 1990) (ISBN 9780140220995)
- London: A Social History (London, 1994; 1996; 2000) (ISBN 9780674538382)
- The Rise and Fall of London's Town Centres: Lessons for the Future (London, 1996) (ISBN 9781899626250)
[edit] History Today Articles
- "Under the influence": mesmerism in England (September 1985)
- The Rise and Fall of the Age of Miracles (November 1996)
- Bethlam/Bedlam: Methods of Madness? (October 1997)
- Reading is Bad for your Health (March 1998)
- Matrix of modernity - Roy Porter discusses how the British Enlightenment paved the way for the creation of the modern world (April 2001)
- The body politic: diseases and discourses - Roy Porter shows how 18th-century images of the medical profession flow over into the work of political caricaturists (October 2001)
Co-authored [link]
- Rape, with Sylvana Tomaselli (1986) ISBN 978-0-393-04634-2
- Patient's Progress: Doctors and Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England, with Dorothy Porter (1989) ISBN 978-0-8047-1744-1
- The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950, with Lesley A Hall (1995) ISBN 978-0-300-06221-2
- Gout: The Patrician Malady, with G S Rousseau (1998) ISBN 978-0-300-07386-7
As editor [link]
- The Ferment of Knowledge: Studies in the Historiography of Eighteenth-Century Science, with G S Rousseau (1980) ISBN 978-0-521-22599-1
- Dictionary of the History of Science, with W F Bynum and E J Browne (1981) ISBN 978-0-691-08287-5
- The Enlightenment in National Context, with Mikulás̆ Teich (1981) ISBN 978-0-521-23757-4
- Contributed essay, 'The Enlightenment in England'
- The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry, 3 volumes, with W F Bynum and Michael Shepherd (1985) ISBN 978-0-422-79430-5
- Volume I: People and Ideas - contributed essay 'The Hunger of Imagination: approaching Samuel Johnson's melancholy'
- Revolution in History, with Mikulás̆ Teich (1986) ISBN 978-0-521-25978-1
- Contributed essay, 'The scientific revolution: a spoke in the wheel?'
- Problems and Methods in the History of Medicine, with Andrew Wear (1987) ISBN 978-0-7099-3687-9
- The Social History of Language, with Peter Burke (1987) ISBN 978-0-521-30158-9
- Drugs and Narcotics in History, with Mikulás̆ Teich (1988) ISBN 978-0-521-43163-7
- Romanticism in National Context, with Mikulás̆ Teich (1988) ISBN 978-0-521-32605-6
- Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment, with G S Rousseau (1988) ISBN 978-0-8078-1782-7
- The Dialectics of Friendship, with Sylvana Tomaselli (1989) ISBN 978-0-415-01751-0
- The Hospital in History, with Lindsay Patricia Granshaw (1989) ISBN 978-0-415-00375-9
- Exoticism in the Enlightenment, with G S Rousseau (1989) ISBN 978-0-7190-2677-5
- Fin de Siècle and its Legacy, with Mikulás̆ Teich (1990) ISBN 978-0-521-34108-0
- The Popularization of Medicine, 1650-1850 (1992) ISBN 978-0-415-07217-5
- The Renaissance in National Context, with Mikulás̆ Teich (1992) ISBN 978-0-521-36181-1
- The Scientific Revolution in National Context, with Mikulás̆ Teich (1992) ISBN 978-0-521-39510-6
- Consumption and the World of Goods, with John Brewer (1993) ISBN 978-0-415-03712-9
- Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine, with W F Bynum (1993) ISBN 978-0-415-04771-5
- A Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century World History, with Jeremy Black (1994) ISBN 978-0-631-18068-5
- The Biographical History of Scientists (1994) ISBN 978-0-19-521083-5
- Sexual Knowledge, Sexual Science: The History of Attitudes to Sexuality, with Mikulás̆ Teich (1994) ISBN 978-0-521-44434-7
- Inventing Human Science: Eighteenth-Century Domains, with Christopher Fox and Robert Wokler (1995) ISBN 978-0-520-20010-4
- Languages and Jargons: Contributions Towards the Social History of Language, with Peter Burke (1995) ISBN 978-0-7456-1279-9
- Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century, with Marie Mulvey Roberts (1996) ISBN 978-0-8147-6644-6
- Nature and Society in Historical Context, with Mikulás̆ Teich and Bo Gustafsson (1997) ISBN 978-0-521-49530-1
- From Physico-Theology to Bio-Technology: Essays in the Social and Cultural History of Biosciences, with Kurt Bayertz (1998)ISBN 978-9042005013
- Also contributed essay 'Gout and quackery; or, banks and mountebanks'
- Toleration in Enlightenment Europe, with Ole Peter Grell (2000) ISBN 978-0-521-65196-7
- The Confinement of the Insane: International Perspectives, 1800-1965, with David Wright (2003) ISBN 978-0-521-80206-2
- Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations, with W F Bynum (2005) ISBN 978-0-19-858409-4
Books about Roy Porter [link]
- Remembering Roy Porter (2002, The Wellcome Trust)
- Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter (2007) ISBN 9780230525498
References [link]
- ^ a b c d e f g 'Professor Roy Porter', The Telegraph, March 5, 2002 (accessed 14-03-2009)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i John Forrester, "Obituary: Professor Roy Porter", The Independent, March 6, 2002 (accessed 03-14-2009)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i W F Bynum, "Obituary: Roy Porter", The Guardian, March 5, 2002 (accessed 03-14-2009)
- ^ a b c d e f g Julia Sheppard, 'Obituary: Roy Porter 1946-2002', Medical History, 3 (2002)
- ^ a b c d e f g Hugh Freeman, 'Obituaries: Roy Porter, Formerly Medical and Social Historian', Psychiatric Bulletin, 26 (2002): 398-399
- ^ The Roy Porter Memorial Plaque Unveiling on the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine at UCL website
- ^ HPY.sagepub.com
External links [link]
- Roy Porter memorial and bibliography at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL website.
- Roy Porter at The Guardian.
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Roy Porter (drummer)
Roy Lee Porter (July 30, 1923, Walsenburg, Colorado – January 24 or 25, 1998, Los Angeles) was an American jazz drummer.
Life and career
Porter moved from Walsenburg to Colorado Springs when he was eight years old and began playing drums in rhythm and blues bands while a teenager. He attended Wiley College in Texas briefly, where trumpeter Kenny Dorham was a fellow student. He joined Milt Larkin's band in 1943, replacing Joe Marshall.
After military service, Porter settled in Los Angeles, and his services were soon in demand by some of the pioneers of bebop. He worked with Teddy Bunn and Howard McGhee, making his first recordings with the latter. In 1946 he backed Charlie Parker on such Dial classics as "A Night In Tunisia", "Yardbird Suite", "Ornithology" and the unfortunate recording of "Lover Man".
Porter played on Los Angeles' Central Avenue with such leading bebop players as Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray and Teddy Edwards, and in San Francisco with Hampton Hawes and Sonny Criss. He organized and went on the road with a big band in 1949 that included Art Farmer, Jimmy Knepper and Eric Dolphy.
Roy Porter (footballer)
Roy Porter (24 August 1917 – 6 February 1998) was a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
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Quiet Riot
Quiet Riot is an American heavy metal band, best known for their hit singles "Metal Health" and "Cum on Feel the Noize". The band was founded in 1973, by guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni under the name Mach 1. They then changed the name to Little Women, before settling on Quiet Riot in May 1975. The band's name was inspired by a conversation with Rick Parfitt of the British band Status Quo, in which Parfitt said he'd like to name a band "Quite Right", and his thick English accent made it sound like he was saying "Quiet Riot". The band is ranked at No. 100 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock.
The original line-up featured Rhoads and Garni with lead vocalist Kevin DuBrow and drummer Drew Forsyth. Their most commercially successful lineup consisted of DuBrow alongside guitarist Carlos Cavazo, bassist Rudy Sarzo and drummer Frankie Banali, and in 1983 released their breakthrough album Metal Health, which is known for being the first heavy metal album to top the Billboard album chart. Despite several lineup changes and brief breakups, Quiet Riot continued to record and tour until DuBrow's death from an accidental cocaine overdose in 2007. Banali revived the band in 2010, and the current lineup consists of himself on drums, lead vocalist Jizzy Pearl, bassist Chuck Wright and guitarist Alex Grossi.
Quiet Riot (Prison Break)
"Quiet Riot" is the 68th episode of the American television series Prison Break. It was broadcast on November 17, 2008 in the United States on the Fox Network. In this episode, the team finally breaks into the Scylla room in the Company headquarters.
Plot
Michael Scofield and the team race against time trying to devise a plan to steal Scylla, as the Company will move Scylla to an unknown location on that same day. Michael, however, continues to suffer from his deteriorating health, and the team is forced to carry out the plan as Michael reluctantly agrees to have surgery that day. To reach Scylla, they must break through a concrete wall and a glass wall, without making any noise, changing the room temperature, or touching the floor.
Meanwhile, Gretchen dresses up to seduce the General and steal the sixth card that is necessary to decode Scylla. Having personally trained her, the General realizes that she is lying and threatens to kill her. Gretchen pleads with him, mentioning her daughter, whose father is supposedly the General. The General lets Gretchen go but tells her if he ever sees her again, he'll kill her.
Quiet Riot (disambiguation)
Quiet Riot is an American heavy metal band.
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TIN SOLDIER
by: Quiet RiotI'm... a little tin soldier that wants to jump into the fight
Yes you, you're a look in your eye, a dream passing by in the sky
Now I don't understand
But all I need is treat me like a man
'Cause I ain't no child, take me like I am.
I've got to know I'm in love with you
Do anything that you want me to
Sing any song that you want me to
Sing to you
All I need, is your whispered "hello", smiles melting from your window
Your eyes, are deeper than time, sailing on that with the breeze
So now I've lost my way
I need help to show me things to say
Give me your love, before love fades away
I've got to know I'm in love with you
Do anything that you want me to
Sing any song that you want me to
Sing it to you
I don't need no... compensation
And I just got to beg you, listen
I just got to beg you
I've got to know I'm in love with you
Do anything that you want me to
Sing any song that you want me to
Sing it to you (watch out)
I just want some reaction
Someone to give me satisfaction
All I've gotta to do is stay next to you
Some reaction
A little bit of satisfaction
All I'm gonna do is get next to you
I've got to know I'm in love with you
Do anything that you want me to
Sing any song that you want me to
Sing it to you
I've got to know I'm in love with you (yes I am)
Do anything that you want me to (I'm gonna sing her a song)
Sing any song that you want me to (right on ta you)
Sing it to you (Yeah yeah)
I've got to know I'm in love with you (yes I do)
Do anything that you want me to
Sing any song that you want me to