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Ronald L. Numbers
| Hilldale and William Coleman Professor
of the History of Science and Medicine
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1432 Med Sci Center
1300 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706-1585 |
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7125 Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1393 |
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608-262-3701 (office)
608-262-1460 (Hist. Med. Office) |
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608-265-0486 |
| Email: |
rnumbers@med.wisc.edu |
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Special interests and recent research:
The history of science, medicine, and religion in America. Currently
writing a one-volume history of science in America since European settlement
and coediting (with David Lindberg) an eight-volume Cambridge History
of Science. Additional works in progress include coedited volumes on Science
and the Christian Tradition (with David Lindberg), and on Modern Science
in National and International Context (with David Livingstone).
Recent publications:
- In July, 2007, Oxford University Press will bring out a new book of mine, Science and
Christianity in Pulpit and Pew.
- Late late year (2006) Harvard University Press published an expanded version of The Creationists:
From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, to which I added nearly 150 new pages and which
the Financial Times selected as a pick of the year.
- Four volumes of the eight-volume Cambridge History of Science, which I am editing with David C. Lindberg,
have already appeared; and a few months ago we sent a fifth to press.
- The Creationists (New York: Knopf, 1992; paperback edition,
University of California Press, 1993).
- Darwinism Comes to America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 1998).
- Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and
Gender (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 1999),
coedited with John Stenhouse.
Additional Information
Recently I have been focusing most of my research and writing on finishing Science and the Americans:
A History, under contract to Basic Books.
Thanks to a grant from the John Templeton Foundation, I have been able to organize (with Keith Benson of
the University of British Columbia) two international conferences this year: the first (scheduled for May)
on “Science and Religion around the World,” which will be edited with John Hedley Brooke and published
(in paper and online) by Oxford University Press; the second (August) on “Major Myths in the History of
Science and Religion.” With Charles Cohen (University of Wisconsin) I have organized a conference on
"Religious Pluralism in Modern America," scheduled for April. I am also collaborating with Denis Alexander
(University of Cambridge) on a conference and book devoted to "The Social, Political, and Relgious
Transformations of Biology," scheduled for September.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Terry Lectures, Yale University invited me to deliver one of
the 2006 Terry Lectures (to be published by Yale University Press).
In the summer of 2005 I was elected to a four-year term as president of the International Union of History
and Philosophy of Science/Division of History of Science and Technology.
In 2005 the American Association for the Advancement of Science elected me a fellow.
I currently serve on the editorial boards of Religion and American Culture, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte
und Theorie der Biologie/Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology, and the recently created Outreach
and Education in Evolution. I continue to edit a series of books on “Medicine, Science, and Religion in
Historical Context” for the Johns Hopkins University Press.
Regularly offered courses:
- 331: Science, Medicine, and Religion
- 394: Science in America
- 504: Society and Health Care in American History
- 915: Seminar on Science in America.
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