Law and medicine in revolutionary America : dissecting the Rush v. Cobbett trial, 1799 /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Myrsiades, Linda S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bethlehem, PA : Lanham, MD : Lehigh University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, c2012.
Series:Studies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world.
Subjects:
Rush, Benjamin, > 1746-1813 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Cobbett, William, > 1763-1835 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Cobbett, William, > 1763-1835
Rush, Benjamin, > 1746-1813
Porcupine's gazette.
1700-1799
Trials (Libel) > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 18th century.
Malpractice > history
Procès (Diffamation) > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire > 18e siècle.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Trials (Libel)
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
History
Trials, litigation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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