Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America
Dissecting the Rush v. Cobbett Trial, 1799
2012
First Published
295
Number of Pages
Part of Series
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.
