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<h3>Class 2: Politics and Medicine Collide During the Yellow Fever Epidemic</h3>
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<p>Building on the discussion in Class 1, this session explores how politicians and partisans politicized the debate about the origin, transmission, and treatment of yellow fever. The disagreement between Dr. Benjamin Rush, a prominent physician and republican, and Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, the leader of the Federalist party, serves as a case study for the class discussion. At the close of the class, students are encouraged to find contemporary examples in which politics and public health have intersected and extend the insights from the readings to these examples.</p>
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<li>Apel, Thomas A. <em>Feverish Bodies, Enlightened Minds: Science and the Yellow Fever Controversy in the Early American Republic</em>. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. pp. 117–143</li>
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<li>Pernick, Martin S. “Politics, Parties, and Pestilence: Epidemic Yellow Fever in Philadelphia and the Rise of the First Party System.” <em>The William and Mary Quarterly</em> 29, no. 4 (October 1, 1972): 559–86.</li>
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<li>Hamilton, Alexander. <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/politicsofyellowfever/collection-detail.html?imgid=21&imgName=OB12609-md">“Letter from Alexander Hamilton to the Federal Gazette.”</a> <em>Gazette of the United States</em>. September 14, 1793. Courtesy Library of Congress – Chronicling America.</li>
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<li>Rush, Benjamin. <a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/politicsofyellowfever/collection-detail.html?imgid=2&imgName=OB12591-md"><em>An Account of the Bilious Remitting Yellow Fever, as It Appeared in the City of Philadelphia, in the Year 1793</em></a>. 2nd ed. Philadelphia, PA: Thomas Dobson, 1794. pp. 298-314 and 325-330. From U.S. National Library of Medicine: Digital Collections. <a href="http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101283166">http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101283166</a></li>
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<li>During the 1790s, both federalism and republicanism appeared well-aligned with divergent, longstanding explanations for yellow fever’s origin and transmission. Using examples drawn from Pernick and Apel, identify which explanations appealed to Federalists and which explanations of yellow fever appealed to republicans and why.</li>
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