Feverish bodies, enlightened minds : science and the yellow fever controversy in the early American republic / Thomas A. Apel.
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TextPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resource (x, 191 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9780804799638
- 0804799636
- Yellow fever -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Yellow fever -- Etiology -- History -- 18th century
- Epidemics -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Diseases -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Medical sciences -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation -- History -- 18th century
- Medicine -- History -- 18th century
- Yellow Fever -- history
- Yellow Fever -- epidemiology
- History, 18th Century
- United States -- epidemiology
- Fièvre jaune -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Fièvre jaune -- Étiologie -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Maladies -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Sciences de la santé -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Étiologie -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Médecine -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Public Health
- SCIENCE -- History
- Diseases
- Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation
- Epidemics
- Medical sciences
- Yellow fever
- Yellow fever -- Etiology
- United States
- 1700-1799
- 614.5/41 23
- RA644.Y4 A64 2016
- 2016 E-889
- WC 532
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contexts and causes -- "Declare the past" -- "Nature is the great experimenter" -- "Let not God intervene" -- "In politics as well as medicine"; or, The arrogance of the enlightened -- Conclusion : "a new era in the science of medicine"?
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 30, 2016).
From 1793 to 1805, yellow fever devastated US port cities in a series of terrifying epidemics. The search for the cause and prevention of the disease involved many prominent American intellectuals, including Noah Webster and Benjamin Rush. This investigation produced one of the most substantial and innovative outpourings of scientific thought in early American history. But it also led to a heated and divisive debate - both political and theological - around the place of science in American society. 'Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds' opens an important window onto the conduct of scientific inquiry in the early American republic.
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