Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Rochester Press
- Date of Publication 3 June 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781648250750
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages308 pages
- Size 228x152 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 b/w illus. 700
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
Benjamin 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.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Truth is a Unit"
Part I-Making an American System
1. The Education of Benjamin Rush
2. An American Physician
3. Making and Sharing Medical Knowledge
4. Learning from Bodies
Part II-Using an American System
5. Explaining Variation in American Bodies
6. Confronting Climatic Ills
7. Care, Curing, and Prevention in American Institutions
8. Prepping the Next Generation of "Republican Machines"
Epilogue
Bibliography
Abbreviations
Sources Cited
Index
