9781611461022-1611461022-Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America: Dissecting the Rush v. Cobbett Trial, 1799 (Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World)

Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America: Dissecting the Rush v. Cobbett Trial, 1799 (Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World)

ISBN-13: 9781611461022
ISBN-10: 1611461022
Author: Linda Myrsiades
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Format: Hardcover 294 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781611461022
ISBN-10: 1611461022
Author: Linda Myrsiades
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Format: Hardcover 294 pages

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Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America: Dissecting the Rush v. Cobbett Trial, 1799 (Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World) (ISBN-13: 9781611461022 and ISBN-10: 1611461022), written by authors Linda Myrsiades, was published by Lehigh University Press in 2012. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Revolution & Founding (United States History, State & Local, Military History, World History, Witnesses, Rules & Procedures, Health Law, Health & Medical Law, Medical Law & Legislation, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America: Dissecting the Rush v. Cobbett Trial, 1799 (Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Revolution & Founding books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America: Dissecting the Rush v. Cobbett Trial, 1799 offers the first deep analysis of the most important libel trial in post-revolutionary America and an approach to understanding a much-studied revolutionary figure, Benjamin Rush, in a new light as a legal subject. This libel trial faced off the new nation’s most prestigious physician-patriot, Benjamin Rush, against its most popular journalist, William Cobbett, the editor of Porcupine’s Gazette. Studied by means of a rare and substantial surviving transcript, the trial features six litigating counsel whose narrative of events and roles provides a unique view of how the revolutionary generation saw itself and the legacy it wished to leave to its progeny. The trial is structured by assaults against medical bleeding and its premier practitioner in yellow fever epidemics of the 1790s in Philadelphia, on the one hand, and castigates the licentiousness of the press in the nation’s then-capital city, on the other. As it does so, it exemplifies the much-derided litigiousness of the new nation and the threat of sedition that characterized the development of political parties and the partisan press in late eighteenth-century America.
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