Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America: Dissecting the Rush v. Cobbett Trial, 1799

by Linda Myrsiades

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611461022
• ISBN13: 9781611461022
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher