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Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds - Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic (Hardcover)
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Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds - Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic (Hardcover)
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From 1793 to 1805, yellow fever devastated U.S. port cities in a
series of terrifying epidemics. The search for the cause and
prevention of the disease involved many prominent American
intellectuals, including Noah Webster and Benjamin Rush. This
investigation produced one of the most substantial and innovative
outpourings of scientific thought in early American history. But it
also led to a heated and divisive debate-both political and
theological-around the place of science in American society.
Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds opens an important window onto
the conduct of scientific inquiry in the early American republic.
The debate between "contagionists," who thought the disease was
imported, and "localists," who thought it came from domestic
sources, reflected contemporary beliefs about God and creation, the
capacities of the human mind, and even the appropriate direction of
the new nation. Through this thoughtful investigation of the yellow
fever epidemic and engaging examination of natural science in early
America, Thomas Apel demonstrates that the scientific imaginations
of early republicans were far broader than historians have
realized: in order to understand their science, we must understand
their ideas about God.
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