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1	When Science & Christianity Meet more books like this by David C Lindberg (Editor), Professor Ronald L Numbers (Editor) add to wishlist This book, in language accessible to the general reader, investigates twelve of the most notorious, most interesting, and most instructive episodes involving the interaction between science and Christianity, aiming to tell each story in its historical specificity and local particularity.Among the events treated in "When Science and Christianity ... see all copies from $7.66! new only from $15.60! \| SVS
2	Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health more books like this by Judith Walzer Leavitt (Editor), Professor Ronald L Numbers (Editor) add to wishlist An invaluable resource for students, scholars, and general readers, this highly regarded and widely used social history of medicine and public health in the United States is now available in a third edition. Extensively revised and updated, it includes twenty-one new essays; graphs illustrating the rise in deaths caused by HIV, homicide, and ... see all copies from $4.20! new only from $33.95!
3	Galileo Goes to Jail: And Other Myths about Science and Religion more books like this by Professor Ronald L Numbers (Editor) add to wishlist If we want non scientists and opinion-makers in the press, the lab, and the pulpit to take a fresh look at the relationship between science and religion, Ronald Numbers suggests that we must first dispense with the hoary myths that have masqueraded too long as historical truths. Until about the 1970s, the dominant narrative in the history of ... see all copies from $18.55! new only from $18.55! \| first editions \| SVS
4	God and Nature more books like this by David C Lindberg (Photographer), Professor Ronald L Numbers (Photographer) add to wishlist Since the publication in 1896 of Andrew Dickson White's classic "History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom", no comprehensive history of the subject has appeared in the English language. Although many twentieth-century historians have written on the relationship between Christianity and science, and in the process have called ... see all copies from $15.50! new only from $21.99! \| SVS
5	The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design more books like this by Professor Ronald L Numbers add to wishlist In light of the embattled status of evolutionary theory, particularly as "intelligent design" makes headway against Darwinism in the schools and in the courts, this now classic account of the roots of creationism assumes new relevance. Expanded and updated to account for the appeal of intelligent design and the global spread of creationism, "The ... see all copies from $16.06! new only from $19.32!
6	The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 4, Eighteenth-Century Science more books like this by Dr. Roy Porter (Editor), David C Lindberg (Editor), Professor Ronald L Numbers (Editor) add to wishlist This volume offers to general and specialist readers alike the fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century, exploring the implications of the 'scientific revolution' of the previous century and the major new growth-points, particularly in the experimental sciences. It is designed to be read as both a ... see all copies from $21.01! new only from $29.95!
7	Prophetess of Health: A Study of Ellen G. White more books like this by Professor Ronald L Numbers add to wishlist Respected historian of science Ronald Numbers here examines one of the most influential, yet least examined, religious leaders of the mid-nineteenth century - Ellen G. White, the enigmatic visionary who founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Numbers scrutinizes White's life (1827-1915), from her teenage visions and testimonies to her extensive ... see all copies from $17.99! new only from $20.98! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Caring and Curing: Health and Medicine in the Western Religious Traditions more books like this by Professor Ronald L Numbers add to wishlist Most religious traditions have a rich, if largely forgotten, heritage of involvement in medical issues of life, death and health. Religious values influence our behaviour and attitudes toward sickness, sexuality and lifestlye, as well as more controversial issues such as abortion and euthanasia. The essays in this book illuminate the history of ... see all copies from $12.95! new only from $27.95! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Darwinism Comes to America more books like this by Professor Ronald L Numbers add to wishlist In 1997, even as Pope John Paul II was conceding that evolution was "more than just a theory", local school boards and state legislatures in the USA were still wrangling over the teaching of origins - and nearly half all Americans polled believed in the special creation of the first humans. Why do so many Americans still resist the ideas laid out ... see all copies from $13.00! new only from $21.95! \| SVS
10	Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew more books like this by Professor Ronald L Numbers add to wishlist Ronald Numbers is one of the best known scholars of the relationship between science and religion. In this volume he collects seven of his published papers focusing on Christianity and science. The essays address broad topics such as the popularization of scientific ideas, secularization, and the development of the naturalistic worldview. One ... see all copies from $3.40! new only from $4.98! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender more books like this by Professor Ronald L Numbers (Editor), John Stenhouse (Editor) add to wishlist This innovative collection of original essays focuses on the ways in which geography, gender, race, and religion influenced the reception of Darwinism in the English-speaking world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The contributions to this volume collectively illustrate the importance of local social, physical, and religious ... see all copies from $3.86! new only from $3.86!
12	Wisconsin Medicine more books like this by Professor Ronald L Numbers, Judith Walzer Leavitt add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Scientific Enterprise in America: Readings from Isis more books like this by Professor Ronald L Numbers (Editor), Professor Charles E Rosenberg (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of 16 essays on the history of science in America ranges chronologically from the early 19th century to the 1990s. The essays reflect the scope of the discipline: from the pursuit of science in elite academic, industrial and governmental settings to science at home and in the movies. Such timely issues as women and science, the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.75! \| first editions
14	The Creationists more books like this by Professor Ronald L Numbers add to wishlist According to a new Gallup poll, 47% of the American people now believe that God made man--as man is now--in a single act of creation, within the last 10,000 years. Ronald Numbers--professor of history and medicine at the University of Wisconsin--chronicles the astonishing resurgence of this belief and explores how the creationist movement ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $54.99! \| first editions
15 view cover	Compulsory Health Insurance: The Continuing American Debate more books like this by Professor Ronald L Numbers add to wishlist see all copies from $7.96! new only from $50.00!
16 view cover	The Disappointed: Millerism and Millenarianism in the Nineteenth Century more books like this by Professor Ronald L Numbers add to wishlist see all copies from $4.60! new only from $21.54! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism more books like this by Professor Ronald L Numbers add to wishlist A paperback reprint of Numbers' illuminating 1992 (Knopf) examination of the English-speaking Christians, primarily North American, who believe that there was no life on earth before Eden less than ten thousand years ago with an emphasis on how persons and parties have used "science" and "pseudosci see all copies from $4.94! first editions
18 view cover	Science and Medicine in the Old South more books like this by Professor Ronald L Numbers (Editor), Todd L Savitt (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $13.00! new only from $26.39! \| first editions \| SVS
19	The Antievolution Works of Arthur I. Brown more books like this by Professor Ronald L Numbers (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $83.98! new only from $90.42!
20	The Education of American Physicians: Historical Essays more books like this by Professor Ronald L Numbers add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
21	Almost Persuaded: American Physicians and Compulsory Health Insurance, 1912-1920 more books like this by Professor Ronald L Numbers add to wishlist see all copies from $25.99!
22	Creation by Natural Law: Laplace's Nebular Hypothesis in American Thought more books like this by Professor Ronald L Numbers add to wishlist see all copies from $24.44! first editions
23	Antievolutionism Before World War I more books like this by A Patterson, Patterson Alexa, Professor Ronald L Numbers add to wishlist see all copies from $43.18!
24 view cover	Prophetess of Health: Ellen G. White and the Origins of Seventh-Day Adventist Health Reform more books like this by Professor Ronald L Numbers add to wishlist see all copies from $55.00!
25	Medicine in the New World: New Spain, New France, and New England more books like this by Professor Ronald L Numbers (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $12.59!

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