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Law and medicine in revolutionary America : dissecting the Rush v. Cobbett trial, 1799 / Linda Myrsiades.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Myrsiades, Linda S.
- Series:
- Studies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world.
- Studies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trials (Libel)--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--18th century.
- Trials (Libel).
- Porcupine's gazette.
- Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Rush, Benjamin.
- Cobbett, William, 1763-1835--Trials, litigation, etc.
- Cobbett, William.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (295 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bethlahem, Pa. : Lehigh University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This study focuses on two critical figures in late eighteenth-century America-the physician Benjamin Rush and the journalist William Cobbett- as they clashed in one of the most important trials of post-revolutionary America, a libel trial that pitted medicine against the press, republicanism against federalism, and privacy against the public welfare.
- Contents:
- Benjamin Rush and the culture of medicine
- Malpractice law and Benjamin Rush
- William Cobbett and the scurrilous press
- Libel law and William Cobbett
- Sangrado v. the cloven foot, the trial
- The trial concluded.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-61146-574-5
- 1-280-68801-7
- 9786613664952
- 1-61146-103-0
- OCLC:
- 854520083
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