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12 de jul. de 2012 · In a letter to his future wife, however, he dismissed Indians' ‘conjugal happiness’ as merely ‘natural love’ that was ‘but a small degree above the happiness of brutes’: Johnson, ‘Benjamin Rush and the Pennsylvania German Farmer’, p. 53
1 de dez. de 2020 · Unger labels Rush “the Founding Father of an America that the other Founding Fathers forgot—an America of women, slaves, indentured workers, laborers, prisoners, the poor, the indigent sick, and mentally ill” (p. 1).
- Andrew Wehrman
- 2020
Benjamin Rush (January 4, 1746 [O.S. December 24, 1745] – April 19, 1813) was an American revolutionary, a Founding Father of the United States and signatory to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, educator, and the founder of ...
In 1809 Rush’s son John attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. Demonstrating his dedication to rehabilitating suicidal despair through hospitalization, Benjamin Rush had John committed to the insane ward of the Pennsylvania Hospital.
In March 1787, Benjamin Rush sat in Benjamin Franklin’s Philadelphia home discussing the nature of public punishments. The two Benjamins were not alone. Rush spoke to the newly formed Society for Promoting Political Inquiries of which he—as well as Franklin—was a founding member.
29 de jan. de 2019 · Benjamin Rush, considered the father of American psychiatry, helped usher in humane care for people with mental illness at the dawn of this nation, but his views on race had a negative impact on treatment.
24 de jan. de 2024 · Benjamin Rush handled mental health cases from the beginning of his private practice in 1769. But his work and views on mental illness and addiction became more advanced and influential after he joined the medical staff of America’s first hospital—Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia—and saw firsthand how the needs of these ...
