Title Benjamin Rush, civic health, and human illness in the early American republic / Sarah E Naramore

Published Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2023 ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 298 pages) : illustrations Series Rochester studies in medical history Rochester studies in medical history. Contents The Education of Benjamin Rush -- An American Physician -- Making and Sharing Medical Knowledge -- Learning from Bodies -- Explaining Variation in American Bodies -- Confronting Climatic Ills -- Care, Curing, and Prevention in American Institutions -- Prepping the Next Generation of "Republican Machines" -- Epilogue Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 26, 2023) Subject Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 -- Political and social views SUBJECT Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 fast Subject Medicine -- United States -- History -- 18th century Medicine -- United States -- History -- 19th century Physicians. Physicians History, 18th Century History, 19th Century physicians. Medicine Political and social views SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 Subject United States Genre/Form History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 2022058858 ISBN 1805430270 9781805430261 1805430262 9781805430278

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