Roy Porter

"These are strange times, when we are healthier than ever but more anxious about our health. According to all the standard benchmarks, we've never had it so healthy. Longevity in the West continues to …"

"The cultural tradition of which the Greek language is the focal point has the longest unbroken history of any in Europe. The Greek state, however, was newly born out of the conflict of 1821-8 and was …"

"Doctors and “consumers” are becoming locked within a fantasy that everyone has something wrong with them, everyone and everything can be cured."

"I wish to explore what mad people meant to say, what was on their minds. Their testimonies are eloquent of their hopes"

"The emergence of this high-tech scientific medicine may be a prime example of what William Blake denounced as 'single vision', the kind of myopia which comes from looking doggedly down a microscope. S…"

"The irony is that the healthier Western society becomes, the more medicine it craves... Immense pressures are created – by the medical profession, by the media, by the high pressure advertising of pha…"