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Autore |
Myrsiades Linda S |
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Titolo |
Law and medicine in revolutionary America [[electronic resource] ] : dissecting the Rush v. Cobbett trial, 1799 / / Linda Myrsiades |
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Bethlahem, Pa., : Lehigh University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-68801-7 |
9786613664952 |
1-61146-103-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (295 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Trials (Libel) - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 18th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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