Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America: Dissecting the Rush v. Cobbett Trial, 1799 (Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World)
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$169.40
Publication Date: May 18th, 2012
Publisher:
Lehigh University Press
ISBN:
9781611461022
Pages:
294
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Description
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.