Law and medicine in revolutionary America
Subtitle: dissecting the Rush v. Cobbett trial, 1799
By: Linda Myrsiades
Publisher: Lehigh University Press ; Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bethlahem, PA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781611461022; 9781611461039
Subjects: Trials (Libel); Trials, litigation; Porcupine's gazette; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Benjamin Rush and the culture of medicine; title: Malpractice law and Benjamin Rush; title: William Cobbett and the scurrilous press; title: Libel law and William Cobbett; title: Sangrado v. the cloven foot, the trial; title: The trial concluded.