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Climate, alcohol, and the American body politic: The medical and moral geographies of Daniel Drake (1785--1852).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Climate, alcohol, and the American body politic: The medical and moral geographies of Daniel Drake (1785--1852)./
Author:	Dorn, Michael Leverett.
Description:	364 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-12, Section: A, page: 4421.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-12A.
Subject:	Geography. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3074492
ISBN:	0493943293

Climate, alcohol, and the American body politic: The medical and moral geographies of Daniel Drake (1785--1852).
Dorn, Michael Leverett.

Climate, alcohol, and the American body politic: The medical and moral geographies of Daniel Drake (1785--1852). - 364 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-12, Section: A, page: 4421.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kentucky, 2003.

This dissertation explores connections between geography, medicine and society as they were played out in the early nineteenth-century United States through an in-depth study of the life and work of Cincinnati physician, educator and geographer Dr. Daniel Drake. Leaving behind a humble upbringing on the Kentucky frontier, Daniel Drake became the most famous physician of the American West during the first half of the nineteenth century. He taught in Ohio and Kentucky at the earliest Ohio Valley medical schools, and pursued original research in the geography of health and disease in the trans-Appalachian American West. Yet he remains to this day largely unknown to professional geographers, in part because of the weakness of the secondary literature on the history of medical geographic thought and practice.

ISBN: 0493943293Subjects--Topical Terms:

524010
Geography.

Climate, alcohol, and the American body politic: The medical and moral geographies of Daniel Drake (1785--1852).
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520 $a This dissertation explores connections between geography, medicine and society as they were played out in the early nineteenth-century United States through an in-depth study of the life and work of Cincinnati physician, educator and geographer Dr. Daniel Drake. Leaving behind a humble upbringing on the Kentucky frontier, Daniel Drake became the most famous physician of the American West during the first half of the nineteenth century. He taught in Ohio and Kentucky at the earliest Ohio Valley medical schools, and pursued original research in the geography of health and disease in the trans-Appalachian American West. Yet he remains to this day largely unknown to professional geographers, in part because of the weakness of the secondary literature on the history of medical geographic thought and practice.
520 $a Daniel Drake's life and writings reveal the political investments of late Enlightenment medical geography. Medical topographic descriptions like Drake's provided a complex portrait of a given locality, intended to serve as a foundation for emergent systems of jurisprudence and police. Topographers provided 'natural and statistical views' to political and scientific leaders wishing to shape the character and moral development of their citizenry. The image of the new American man was advanced through medical and scientific discourse about 'other' races and explicitly shaped through the discursive practices of temperance and self-discipline. In compiling topographical accounts into broader regional geographies, Daniel Drake lent his voice to debates over America's emerging national character, racial composition, and potential for improvement.
520 $a With his death in 1852, Drake left behind a divided legacy, rooted in conflicting late Enlightenment impulses. The values expressed in his Systematic Treatise were those of a classic republican, an active proponent of Enlightenment rationalism and Hippocratic cultural relativism. On the other hand his, activities as a civic leader and temperance advocate followed the course of therapeutic extremism, responding to disease in its crisis stage by adopting a more narrow moral absolutism. Over time, these contrasting motivations evident in Drake's work have become associated with different modes of medical geographic practice. Seeing how they came to be embodied in the activities of one significant medical geographer can help us to think differently about many of the value conflicts that involve the medical geographic community today.
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