SARAH NARAMORE is Assistant Professor of history at Northwest Missouri State University.

A masterful analysis of a complex figure, who historians have often treated through hagiography or caricature. Naramore provides an essential resource to historians of medical and political thought in the early republic, and the first book scholars should reach for when studying Rush.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: "Truth is a Unit" Part I-Making an American SystemChapter 1-The Education of Benjamin RushChapter 2-An American Physician Chapter 3-Making and Sharing Medical Knowledge Chapter 4-Learning from BodiesPart II-Using an American SystemChapter 5-Explaining Variation in American BodiesChapter 6-Confronting Climatic Ills Chapter 7-Care, Curing, and Prevention in American Institutions Chapter 8-Prepping the Next Generation of "Republican Machines" Epilogue Bibliography AbbreviationsSources Cited Index

SARAH NARAMORE is Assistant Professor of history at Northwest Missouri State University.

A masterful analysis of a complex figure, who historians have often treated through hagiography or caricature. Naramore provides an essential resource to historians of medical and political thought in the early republic, and the first book scholars should reach for when studying Rush.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: "Truth is a Unit" Part I-Making an American SystemChapter 1-The Education of Benjamin RushChapter 2-An American Physician Chapter 3-Making and Sharing Medical Knowledge Chapter 4-Learning from BodiesPart II-Using an American SystemChapter 5-Explaining Variation in American BodiesChapter 6-Confronting Climatic Ills Chapter 7-Care, Curing, and Prevention in American Institutions Chapter 8-Prepping the Next Generation of "Republican Machines" Epilogue Bibliography AbbreviationsSources Cited Index

SARAH NARAMORE is Assistant Professor of history at Northwest Missouri State University.

A masterful analysis of a complex figure, who historians have often treated through hagiography or caricature. Naramore provides an essential resource to historians of medical and political thought in the early republic, and the first book scholars should reach for when studying Rush.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: "Truth is a Unit" Part I-Making an American SystemChapter 1-The Education of Benjamin RushChapter 2-An American Physician Chapter 3-Making and Sharing Medical Knowledge Chapter 4-Learning from BodiesPart II-Using an American SystemChapter 5-Explaining Variation in American BodiesChapter 6-Confronting Climatic Ills Chapter 7-Care, Curing, and Prevention in American Institutions Chapter 8-Prepping the Next Generation of "Republican Machines" Epilogue Bibliography AbbreviationsSources Cited Index