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Jefferson's Secrets: Death and Desire at Monticello

On August 2, 2005, author, professor, and former fellow at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, Andrew Burstein gave an overview of his recent book, which examines Jefferson's interest in health and medicine and the influence it may have had on him. (This talk was sponsored by Sprint Corporation.)

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 1. Introduction: a portrait of Jefferson's imagination (4:57)
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 2. Theories of health, and the body as metaphor (3:37)
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 3. Nerves: invisible and mysterious and potentially devastating (4:55)
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 4. Health, Politics, and Women (4:07)
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 5. The advice of Dr. Tissot (5:02)
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 6. Jefferson and Sally Hemings (4:22)
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 7. An interesting regimen for health (3:57)
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 8. Health and the Body Politic (3:31)
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What did Jefferson think of William Godwin's wife Mary Wolstencraft? (2:52)
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Can you comment on Jefferson's use of the body as a metaphor for politics? (1:20)
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Related Links
bullet Letters from the Head and Heart by Andrew Burstein
bullet Read a review of the Burtsein's book Jefferson's Secrets iin the Virginia Quarterly Review

 
 
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