Ronald Numbers
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American historian of science
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Ronald Numbers's Degrees
- PhD History of Science University of California, Berkeley
- Masters History of Science University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ronald Leslie Numbers was an American historian of science. He was awarded the 2008 George Sarton Medal by the History of Science Society for "a lifetime of exceptional scholarly achievement by a distinguished scholar".
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Published Works
- When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (1993) (276)
- The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design (1993) (221)
- God and nature : historical essays on the encounter between Christianity and science (1986) (149)
- The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism (1995) (137)
- When Science and Christianity Meet (2003) (99)
- Caring and Curing: Health and Medicine in the Western Religious Traditions (1997) (94)
- Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health (1985) (84)
- Darwinism Comes to America. (1998) (80)
- Galileo goes to jail and other myths about science and religion (2010) (79)
- Almost persuaded. American physicians and compulsory health insurance, 1912-1920. (1978) (67)
- Becoming a Physician: Medical Education in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States (1996) (63)
- Women & Men Midwives: Medicine, Morality, and Misogyny in Early America (1980) (48)
- Creationism in 20th-century America. (1982) (43)
- Beyond War and Peace: A Reappraisal of the Encounter between Christianity and Science (1986) (38)
- Newton's Apple and Other Myths about Science (2015) (36)
- The Disappointed: Millerism and Millenarianism in the Nineteenth Century (1997) (31)
- Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender: Frontmatter (1999) (28)
- Prophetess of Health: A Study of Ellen G. White (1976) (28)
- Fair Play in the Marketplace: The First Battle for Pure Food and Drugs (1988) (27)
- Origins of a prohibition. (1978) (26)
- Medicine without Doctors: Home Health Care in American History (1978) (25)
- The Education of American Physicians: Historical Essays (1980) (24)
- Creation by Natural Law: Laplace's Nebular Hypothesis in American Thought (1977) (20)
- Prophetess of Health: Ellen G. White and the Origins of Seventh-Day Adventist Health Reform (1992) (19)
- Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew (2007) (18)
- THAT CREATIONISM IS A UNIQUELY AMERICAN PHENOMENON (2009) (18)
- Science and Medicine in the Old South (1989) (18)
- The Road of Science and the Ways to God. By Stanley L. Jaki. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. vii + 478 pp. $8.95. (1981) (17)
- Antievolutionism in the Antipodes: from protesting evolution to promoting creationism in New Zealand (2000) (17)
- The history of American medicine: a field in ferment. (1982) (17)
- Biology and Ideology From Descartes to Dawkins (2010) (16)
- Science and Religion (1985) (16)
- :Before Scopes: Evangelicalism, Education, and Evolution in Tennessee, 1870–1925. (2005) (16)
- Science, region, and religion: the reception of Darwinism in Princeton, Belfast, and Edinburgh (1999) (13)
- From miasma to asthma: the changing fortunes of medical geography in America. (2003) (13)
- William Beaumont and the ethics of human experimentation (1979) (12)
- Science and religion around the world (2010) (12)
- Clarifying creationism: five common myths. (2011) (11)
- Defending science education against intelligent design: a call to action. (2006) (11)
- When science & Christianity meet (2005) (10)
- Wrestling with nature: From omens to science (2011) (10)
- Darwinian Heresies: Ironic Heresy: How Young-Earth Creationists Came to Embrace Rapid Microevolution by Means of Natural Selection (2004) (10)
- George Frederick Wright: From Christian Darwinist to Fundamentalist (1988) (9)
- Gods in America : religious pluralism in the United States (2013) (9)
- Introduction. The Religion And Science Debate: Why Does It Continue? (2009) (8)
- Ellen Harmon White : American prophet (2014) (7)
- Compulsory health insurance : the continuing American debate (1983) (7)
- Medical science before scientific medicine: reflections on the history of medical geography. (2000) (7)
- Science in the Old South: A Reappraisal (1982) (7)
- The American History of Science Society or the International History of Science Society? The Fate of Cosmopolitanism since George Sarton (2009) (7)
- Creationists and their critics in Australia: an autonomous culture or 'the USA with Kangaroos'? (2002) (7)
- Eminent lives in twentieth-century, science & religion (2007) (7)
- Science, Pseudoscience, and Science Falsely So-CaIIed (2013) (6)
- America's First Hospital: The Pennsylvania Hospital, 1751-1841 (1976) (6)
- Scientific creationism and intelligent design (2010) (6)
- Reading the Book of Nature through American Lenses (2007) (6)
- Medicine in the United States (1959) (6)
- Science, Secularization, and Privatization (2007) (6)
- Millerism and madness. A study of "religious insanity" in nineteenth-century America. (1985) (6)
- Science and Religion: Simplifying complexity: patterns in the history of science and religion (2010) (5)
- Science without God (2007) (5)
- 8. The Third Party: Health Insurance in America (1979) (5)
- Creation, Evolution, and Holy Ghost Religion: Holiness and Pentecostal Responses to Darwinism (1992) (5)
- “The Most Important Biblical Discovery of Our Time”: William Henry Green and the Demise of Ussher's Chronology (2000) (5)
- The making of an eclectic physician: Joseph M. McElhinney and the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati. (1973) (4)
- The American Kepler: Daniel Kirkwood and His Analogy (1973) (4)
- William Beaumont's Reception at Home and Abroad (1981) (4)
- Black responses to Darwinism, 1859–1915 (1999) (3)
- "Caring and Curing. Health and Medicine in Western Religious Traditions", ed. by Ronald L. Numbers, Darrel W. Amundsen, New York-London 1986 : [recenzja] / Jaromir Jeszke. (1994) (3)
- Darwinism in the American South (2017) (3)
- Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender: Darwinism in the American South (1999) (2)
- Aggressors, Victims, And Peacemakers: Historical Actors In The Drama Of Science And Religion (2017) (2)
- Religious insanity; history of a diagnosis. (1986) (2)
- Together but not equal: amateurs and professionals in early American scientific societies. (1976) (2)
- The Truth Seeker (2021) (2)
- Darwin down under: science, religion, and evolution in Australia (1999) (2)
- The Nebular Hypothesis of ISAAC ORR (1972) (2)
- Protestants in an Age of Science: The Baconian Ideal and Antebellum American Religious Thought. Theodore Dwight Bozeman (1978) (2)
- Myth 24. That Creationism Is a Uniquely American Phenomenon (2009) (1)
- Lying-In: A History of Childbirth in America. By Richard W. Wertz and Dorothy C. Wertz. (New York: Free Press, 1977. xii + 260 pp. Illustrations, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $10.00.) (1978) (1)
- Medical Revolution in Minnesota: A History of the University of Minnesota Medical School-Reply (1990) (1)
- The Scientific Enterprise in America: Readings from Isis (1996) (1)
- Book Review:Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science James Gilbert (1999) (1)
- Health and Medicine in the Methodist Tradition: Journey Toward Wholeness. By E. Brooks Holifield. Health and Medicine in the Faith Traditions. New York: Crossroad, 1986. xv + 198 pp. $17.95. (1988) (1)
- The village enlightenment in America: popular religion and science in the nineteenth century. [Review of: Hazen, C.J. The village enlightenment in America: popular religion and science in the nineteenth century. Urbana: U. of Illinois Pr., 2000]. (2002) (1)
- The war against hookworm. (1982) (1)
- Charles Hodge and the Beauties and Deformities of Science (2007) (1)
- Graduate education in the history of medicine: North America. (1986) (1)
- Comments on William Shea (2012) (1)
- Dr. Jackson's water cure and its influence on Adventist health reform. (1974) (1)
- Creation, Evolution, and the Boundaries of Science: The Debate in the United States (2012) (1)
- Creationism, intelligent design, and modern biology (2010) (1)
- The Antievolution Works of Arthur I. Brown (1995) (1)
- Science, Eastern Orthodoxy, and World Religions (2016) (1)
- The Most Important Biblical Discovery of Our Time (2007) (1)
- Let Me Heal: The Opportunity to Preserve Excellence in American Medicine by Kenneth M. Ludmerer (review) (2015) (1)
- Sainthood Confirmed (2000) (1)
- Experiencing Evolution: Varieties of Psychological Responses to the Claims of Science and Religion (2005) (1)
- Part 2 Structural Design and Functions of the Trunk (2021) (0)
- Fit for America: Health, Fitness, Sport, and American Society. By Harvey Green. (New York: Pantheon, 1986. xvi + 367 pp. $24.95.) (1987) (0)
- Orthodoxy and the Science of the Future (2018) (0)
- Darwin to Einstein: Historical Studies on Science and Belief. Colin Chant , John FauvelDarwin to Einstein: Primary Sources on Science and Belief. Noel G. Coley , Vance M. D. Hall (1982) (0)
- Larry A. Witham, Where Darwin Meets the Bible: Creationists and Evolutionists in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. vi+330 pp. $30.00 (cloth). (2004) (0)
- Book Review The Western Medical Tradition: 1800 to 2000 By W.F. Bynum, Anne Hardy, Stephen Jacyna, Christopher Lawrence, and E.M. Tansey. 614 pp., illustrated. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2006. $90 (cloth); $29.99 (paper). 978-0-521-47524-2 (cloth); 978-0-521-47565-5 (paper). (2007) (0)
- The Bulletin of Deluge Geology (2021) (0)
- The Religion of Chiropractic: Populist Healing from the American Heartland by Holly Folk (review) (2018) (0)
- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought: Creationism (2013) (0)
- McPherson-Smith Debate (2021) (0)
- Science and Christianity among the People (2007) (0)
- Book Review:American Medical Education: The Formative Years, 1765-1910 Martin Kaufman (1979) (0)
- Book Review:The Post-Darwinian Controversies: A Study of the Protestant Struggle to Come to Terms with Darwin in Great Britain and America, 1870-1900 James R. Moore (1980) (0)
- Dinosaurs and The Deluge * (2021) (0)
- Angelical Conjunction: The Preacher-Physicians of Colonial New England.@@@Enter the Physician: The Transformation of Domestic Medicine, 1760-1860.@@@Medicine in America: A Short History. (1993) (0)
- Book Review:American Medical Schools and the Practice of Medicine: A History William G. Rothstein (1989) (0)
- Joseph Jones, M.D.: Scientist of the Old South. By James O. Breeden. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1975. xiii + 295 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, note on sources, and index. $13.25.) (1976) (0)
- Presentation of Narses results: Science and religion in the Greek state (19th-20th c.) (2015) (0)
- Editorial: Farewells and Introductions (1989) (0)
- The Gospel of Right Living: (2019) (0)
- Deluge Ice Data From Ocean Depths * (2021) (0)
- The Warfare between Science and Religion (2018) (0)
- “In The Beginning” (2021) (0)
- A Rebuttal (2021) (0)
- Medicine in Society: Historical Essays (1993) (0)
- America's God, Nature's God (2003) (0)
- News of Record (1981) (0)
- CHH volume 69 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (2000) (0)
- The War Against Hookworm: The Germ of Laziness . Rockefeller Philanthropy and Public Health in the New South. John Ettling. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1981. xiv, 264 pp. $18.50. (1982) (0)
- Editorial (1992) (0)
- CHAPTER 8. Science and Medicine (2019) (0)
- Book Review:The History of the Health Care Sciences and Health Care, 1700-1980: A Selective Annotated Bibliography Jonathon Erlen (1986) (0)
- Science and the Bible (2021) (0)
- For the Recent Creation of the Earth (2021) (0)
- When was the Earth Created? (2021) (0)
- Myth 17. That Social Darwinism Has Had a Profound Influence on Social Thought and Policy, Especially in the United States of America (2015) (0)
- Book Review:Sex, Diet, and Debility in Jacksonian America: Sylvester Graham and Health Reform Stephen Nissenbaum (1981) (0)
- Creation-Evolution Debates (2021) (0)
- Orthodox Christianity and the Reassessment of Scientific Knowledge - Day 2 (2018) (0)
- Off-Duty Darwinism (2007) (0)
- Book Review:Masters of Madness: Social Origins of the American Psychiatric Profession Constance M. McGovern (1987) (0)
- Time to Heal: American Medical Education from the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care. By Kenneth M. Ludmerer. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxvi, 514 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-19-511837-5.) (2001) (0)
- American Medicine Comes of Age 1840-1920: Essays to Commemorate the Founding of the Journal of The American Medical Association, July 14, 1883. Lester S. King (1985) (0)
- The Church and Healing . Edited by W. J. Sheils. Studies in Church Histroy 19. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1982. xxiv + 440 pp. $36.00. (1984) (0)
- Catholicism and Science. Roman Catholicism and Modern Science: A History (2009) (0)
- at Home and Abroad (2016) (0)
- The Early Writings of Harold W. Clark and Frank Lewis Marsh (2021) (0)
- Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society 27-30 December 1981 (1982) (0)
- Book Review The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America By Gerald N. Grob. 349 pp. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2002. $35. 0-674-00881-2 (2003) (0)
- Michael D. Gordin. The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe. (2014) (0)
- Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society Minneapolis, 26-29 October 1995 (1996) (0)
- The Bulletin of Creation, the Deluge and Related Science (2021) (0)
- Men, Monkeys and Missing Links (2021) (0)
- Early Creationist Journals (2021) (0)
- Gregor Mendel: Creationist Hero (2015) (0)
- God's Primary and Secondary Creations * (2021) (0)
- Book Review:Science, Religion, and Mormon Cosmology Erich Robert Paul (1994) (0)
- Book Review:Crusaders for Fitness: The History of American Health Reformers James C. Whorton (1983) (0)
- Kellogg, John Harvey (1852–1943) (2015) (0)
- The Village Enlightenment in America: Popular Religion and Science in the Nineteenth Century . By Craig James Hazen. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. ix + 194 pp. $34.95 cloth; $19.95 paper. (2002) (0)
- Book notices-disseminating darwinism: The role of place, race, religion, and gender (2002) (0)
- Letters and Comments (2021) (0)
- The Creationist Writings of Byron C. Nelson (2021) (0)
- The Unity of Truth (2021) (0)
- Organized medicine didn't always oppose NHI. (1978) (0)
- Selected Works of George McCready Price (2021) (0)
- The Creation of the Earth a Symposium Introduction (2021) (0)
- Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender: Introduction (1999) (0)
- The “Unknown Factor” in Evolution (2021) (0)
- ["Darwin’s Legacy: Place, Race, Religion and Gender"] (2008) (0)
- Charles A. Israel. Before Scopes: Evangelicalism, Education, and Evolution in Tennessee, 1870–1925. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2004. Pp. x, 252. Cloth $49.95, paper $19.95 (2005) (0)
- The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture. By James T. Patterson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. xv + 380 pp. $25.95.) (1988) (0)
- Science and Religion in the American Society of Church History (1984) (0)
- Teleological Language Used by Darwin * (2021) (0)
- David J. Rothman. Strangers at the Bedside: A History of How Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making. New York: Basic Books. 1991. Pp. xi, 303. $24.95 (1992) (0)
- Gregor Mendel: Creationist Hero (2013) (0)
- The Radioactive Time Theory and Recent Trends in Methods of Reckoning Geologic Time (2021) (0)
- An Unregimented Biologist (2021) (0)
- God's Creative Forethought (2021) (0)
- Mutations Powerfully Injurious Abnormalities, Weaknesses, and Imperfections (2021) (0)
- Making Sense of Self: Medical America (1983) (0)
- United States (2020) (0)
- Peter M. J. Hess; Paul L. Allen.Catholicism and Science.xxvi + 241 pp., figs., bibl., index. Westport, Conn./London: Greenwood Press, 2008. $65 .Don O'Leary.Roman Catholicism and Modern Science: A History. xx + 376 pp., bibl., index. New York/London: Continuum, 2006. $34.95 (2009) (0)
- Excessive Assignment of Species Rank (2021) (0)
- The Creationist Controversy (1985) (0)
- Edited volumes-the scientific enterprise in America (1998) (0)
- The Bulletin of Deluge Geology and Related Sciences (2021) (0)
- Evolution and the Bible (2021) (0)
- REVISITING THE BATTLEFIELDS OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION (2019) (0)
- The Value of Discussion (2021) (0)
- Into all the World: expanding the History of Science and Religion beyond the Abrahamic Faiths (2017) (0)
- Antievolutionism Before World War I (2021) (0)
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