Read Flesh in the Age of Reason Online
Authors: Roy Porter
Tags: #Non-Fiction, #18th Century, #Cultural Anthropology, #20th Century, #Philosophy, #Science History, #Britain, #Amazon.com, #Retail, #Cultural History, #History
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INDEX
Figures in
bold
indicates a definition or an explanation. Figures followed by a lower case ‘n’ refer to footnotes.
Act of Toleration (1689)
22
Adair, James
401
Adams, Dr (Johnson’s doctor)
172
,
184
,
188
addiction/dependence
399
–401,
404
,
406
–9,
417
–18
encouraged
402
–3
Addison & Steele
civilizing mission
114
–15,
116
–17,
228
–9
on education
125
–9
on exercise
119
–21
manners & morals
114
–17,
138
,
203
,
280
,
463
medicine/physic
121
–3
role models
191
on sloth
179
–80
on spiritual health
124
–5
on suicide
225
on women
263
see also Spectator;
Steele, Richard
Addison, Joseph
see
Addison & Steele Aeschylus
4
,
30
anthropocentric
221
Christian concept
18
,
20
–21,
81
,
102
Enlightenment concepts
104
–8
see also
body, death/immortality; death/dying
Airs, Waters, Places
(Hippocratic text)
46
Aldini, Giovanni
215
–16
History of Women
(1779)
258
–9,
261
–2
Anglican Church/Anglicanism
21
,
361
–2
animism
27
Anne, Queen of England
167
anthropocentrism
103
classification
247
–9
satirized
465
Anti-Jacobin Review
(1798–1810)
418
‘The Loves of the Triangles’
429
Arabian Nights
125
Arbuthnot, John
159
Essay Concerning the Nature of Ailments, An
(1731)
230
Arianism/Socinianism
96
,
101
,
364
Aristotle/Aristotelianism
47
,
49
,
66
,
80
,
82
,
83
,
90
,
245
cosmology
32
human nature
130
metaphysics
33
rejected
54
scholasticism
37
soul
32
–3
Arminianism
359
Arnold, Thomas,
Observations on the Nature… of Lunacy
(1782–6)
312
Asgill, John
470
Argument Proving… Eternal Life, An
(1700)
97
–8
Assheton, William
104
Astell, Mary,
Some Reflections upon Marriage
(1697)
263
–4
astrology
see
supernatural phenomena
asylums
see
madness & the insane, care & treatment
Athanasian Creed
101
Aristotelianism and
90
science and
93
triumph
147
Athenian Gazette
(1691)
103
,
107
,
249
atomism
51
Austen, Jane
Mansfield Park
(1814)
272
Sanditon
(1817)
282
–3
autobiography
12
satirized
278
–9
autopsy
223
Advancement of Learning, The
(1605)
64
demonized
435
scientific method
91
Baglivi, Giorgio,
Praxis Medica
(1699)
53
Baker, John
233
Banks, Sophia
233
Baptista, John & Coloreda, Lazarus (Siamese twins)
106
Baptists
22
Battie, William,
Treatise on Madness
(1758)
314
Baxter, Richard
103
Saints’ Everlasting Rest, The
(1650)
101
Beauclerk, Topham
403
Beconsall, Thomas,
Doctrine of a General Resurrection, The
(1697)
95
–6
Beddoes, Thomas
241
–2,
269
,
412
–15
Considerations on the Medicinal Use of Factitious Airs
(1794)
414
death
417
–18
Bedford, Grosvenor
417
Beethoven, Ludwig van
12
behaviourism
13
Berkeley, George
24
–5
Beswick, Miss
215
Bethlem Hospital (asylum)
314
Bewick, Thomas
231
–2
Bildung
9
Birmingham Riots (1791)
413
Black Death
211
black magic
see
supernatural phenomena
Black, Joseph
413
Blackmore, Richard
403
on madness
310
‘Little Black Boy, The’
249
on natural theology
434
–5
Songs of Innocence
242
body
asceticism
227
–8
character & rank
246
–7
Christian doctrine
19
–20,
80
,
226
–7,
228
,
229
–30,
471
–2
death/immortality
102
,
220
–21,
427
,
428
;
see also
afterlife
dissection
223
–6
fashions in
240
–41
functions diarised
232
–3
image
239
language
246
medicine and
121
–3
mind, threat to
139
neurophysiology
57