Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic

Sarah E. Naramore

doi:10.1017/9781805430261

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Sarah E. Naramore, Northwest Missouri State University

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: January 2024
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781805430261
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781805430261

Subjects:: Engineering, Engineering: General Interest
Series:: Rochester Studies in Medical History

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A close look at the medical and social theories of prominent Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush and how they influenced American medicine in the years following the Revolutionary War.

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Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgments
pp vii-ix

Abbreviations
pp x-x

Introduction: “Truth Is a Unit”
pp 1-12

Part I - Making an American System
pp 13-14

Overview
pp 15-17

1 - The Education of Benjamin Rush
pp 18-47

2 - An American Physician
pp 48-74

3 - Making and Sharing Medical Knowledge
pp 75-97

4 - Learning from Bodies
pp 98-128

Part II - Using an American System
pp 129-130

Overview
pp 131-133

5 - Explaining Variation in American Bodies
pp 134-166

6 - Confronting Climatic Ills
pp 167-196

7 - Care, Curing, and Prevention in American Institutions
pp 197-230

8 - Prepping the Next Generation of “Republican Machines”
pp 231-259

Epilogue
pp 260-264

Bibliography
pp 265-292

Index
pp 293-298

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