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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Benjamin Rush"”.
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Pathologizing and Criminalizing Intoxication: Addiction, Psychoactive Drugs, and the Ideological Underpinnings of the War on Drugs
… transferred into the United States by physician Benjamin Rush, American temperance discourses during the nineteenth century increasingly relied on the growing authority of medical science to advance a medico-legal definition of intoxication and addiction based on comparisons between alcohol and …
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THE HISTORY OF THE DISEASE CONCEPT OF SUBSTANCE DEPENDENCY
… of substance dependence have been disputed. Benjamin Rush (1746-1813) and Thomas Trotter (1760-1832) have been credited as being the founders of the movement to acknowledge substance dependence as a disease. Through efforts of scientists of the 19th and 20th centuries, the concept of …
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The Changing Nature of Punishment: From Theology to Reform Ideology and Gallows to Penitentiaries, New England, 1674-1837
… these shifts were crucial for reformers such as Benjamin Rush, Edward Livingston, Thomas Upham, and Robert Rantoul Jr. This study then demonstrates rhetorical shifts that allowed for the possibility of temporal reformation within a penitentiary to be possible. Sin and crime became discrete ideas, …
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Ecologies of addiction in nineteenth-century American literature and culture
… and intemperance in the writings of Brown and Benjamin Rush. Chapter 2 contends that lady drunkard narratives by Sigourney and others troubled domestic ideology by embedding addiction in the spousal dynamics, traumas, and medical practices of the home. Focusing on Davis and Dickens, Chapter 3 …
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Feeling singular: masculinity and desire in the early republic, 1786–1822
… between public life and interpersonal desire: Benjamin Rush, for example, wanted to have his personal life narrative limited to his family, and Alexander Graydon used his Memoirs to try to “smother that obtrusive thing called self.” But the eccentric and marginalized individuals here under …
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From 'Hicks' to High Tech: Performative Use in the American Corn Belt
… eighteenth century by analyzing how elites like Benjamin Rush viewed the agricultural practices of German farmers, regarded by many in the upper classes as backwards. I show how observances of German farmers by elites created a pattern repeated throughout American history where rural people would …