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 System1. The Education of Benjamin Rush2. An American Physician 3. Making and Sharing Medical Knowledge 4. Learning from BodiesPart II-Using an American System5. Explaining Variation in American Bodies6. Confronting Climatic Ills 7. Care, Curing, and Prevention in American Institutions 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 System1. The Education of Benjamin Rush2. An American Physician 3. Making and Sharing Medical Knowledge 4. Learning from BodiesPart II-Using an American System5. Explaining Variation in American Bodies6. Confronting Climatic Ills 7. Care, Curing, and Prevention in American Institutions 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 System1. The Education of Benjamin Rush2. An American Physician 3. Making and Sharing Medical Knowledge 4. Learning from BodiesPart II-Using an American System5. Explaining Variation in American Bodies6. Confronting Climatic Ills 7. Care, Curing, and Prevention in American Institutions 8. Prepping the Next Generation of "Republican Machines" Epilogue Bibliography AbbreviationsSources Cited Index