Through an examination of the extensive papers, manuscripts and correspondence of American physician Benjamin Rush and his friends, this article argues that it is possible to map a network of Scottish-trained physicians in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Atlantic world. These physicians, whose members included Benjamin Rush, John Redman, John Morgan, Adam Kuhn, and others, not only brought the Edinburgh model for medical pedagogy across the Atlantic, but also disseminated Scottish stadial theories of development, which they applied to their study of the natural history and medical practices of Native Americans and slaves. In doing so, these physicians developed theories about the relationship between civilization, historical progress and the practice of medicine. Exploring this network deepens our understanding of the transnational intellectual geography of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century British World. This article develops, in relation to Scotland, a current strand of schola...

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疾病与文明：苏格兰大西洋医师网络的启示

通过对美国医生本杰明·拉什（Benjamin Rush）和他的朋友们广泛的论文，手稿和书信的考察，这篇文章认为，可以在18世纪末和19世纪初的大西洋世界中绘制受过苏格兰培训的医生网络。这些医师包括本杰明·拉什（Benjamin Rush），约翰·雷德曼（John Redman），约翰·摩根（John Morgan），亚当·库恩（Adam Kuhn）等人，不仅带来了横跨大西洋的爱丁堡医学教育学模型，而且还传播了苏格兰的发展理论，并将其应用于他们的研究。美洲原住民和奴隶的自然历史和医疗习惯。通过这样做，这些医师发展出有关文明，历史进步与医学实践之间关系的理论。探索该网络将加深我们对18世纪和19世纪初英国世界的跨国知识地理的了解。与苏格兰有关，本文发展了当前的Schola模式。