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OverviewBenjamin Rush (1745-1813) casts a long shadow over American medicine as well as over the social and political history of the American republic. The Philadelphia physician involved himself in numerous social, political, and scientific projects while maintaining a busy practice and lecturing to thousands of students over his career. As a result, attempts by historians to make sense of Rush and his world have been complicated and contradictory. Nevertheless, it is within that mixed narrative of the social, medical, and political that Rush's story becomes its most compelling. At the end of the Revolutionary War, new American citizens found themselves in a new country. For Rush and his colleagues, that newness extended beyond a change in political structure. They believed that the physical challenges of growing cities and western expansion and the psychological challenges of new identities came together in ways that could help or hurt American health. From his vantage point at one of the nation's few medical schools, located in its intellectual capital, Rush developed a reputation as America's physician-while mixing social and scientific ideas for the ""improvement"" of the country as a whole. Putting Rush in this context, Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic goes beyond biography to explore his social and scientific networks and their role in the development of a distinctly American medical profession. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Sarah E. NaramorePublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd Imprint: University of Rochester Press Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9781648250699ISBN 10: 1648250696 Pages: 308 Publication Date: 20 June 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Introduction: ""Truth is a Unit"" Part I-Making an American System Chapter 1-The Education of Benjamin Rush Chapter 2-An American Physician Chapter 3-Making and Sharing Medical Knowledge Chapter 4-Learning from Bodies Part II-Using an American System Chapter 5-Explaining Variation in American Bodies Chapter 6-Confronting Climatic Ills Chapter 7-Care, Curing, and Prevention in American Institutions Chapter 8-Prepping the Next Generation of ""Republican Machines"" Epilogue Bibliography Abbreviations Sources Cited Index"ReviewsAuthor InformationSARAH NARAMORE is Assistant Professor of history at Northwest Missouri State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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