Participant Info
- First Name
- Sarah
- Last Name
- Naramore
- Country
- United States
- State
- MO Missouri
- snaramore@nwmissouri.edu
- Affiliation
- Northwest Missouri State University
- Website URL
- https://www.nwmissouri.edu/socialsciences/directory/naramore.htm
- Keywords
- United States, Medicine, American Revolution, History of Science
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- sarah.naramore@gmail.com 660.562.1291 (work phone)
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a historian of medicine and the early American republic interested in the intersections of science, medicine, and politics. My current book project Medical Independence: How Benjamin Rush Created American Medicine, 1769-1813 explores the way in which Benjamin Rush and his students promoted medical theories they believed were best suited to the new republic. In doing so Rush not only founded a distinctly American medical profession but used his position an expertise to argue for a range of political and social reforms in the name of a healthy republic. In short, this book argues that Rush’s work in science and medicine played a foundational role in the American transition from colony to nation and the social structures that characterized it in the nineteenth century.
- Recent Publications
- “‘My Master and Friend’: Social Networks and Professional Identity in American Medicine, 1789-1815,” Social History of Medicine (preprint June 2020)
- “A Different Kind of Expert,” Nursing Clio (June 25, 2020) https://nursingclio.org/2020/06/25/a-different-kind-of-expert/
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @Sarah_Nara
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- Atlantic, North America, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Revolution, American Founding Era, Medicine
