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Product Description: First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Most religious traditions have a rich, if largely forgotten, heritage of involvement in medical issues of life, death, and health. Religious values influence our behavior and attitudes toward sickness, sexuality, and lifestyle, to say nothing of more controversial subjects such as abortion and euthanasia...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Traces the history of the scientific creationism movement, explaining the beliefs of recent creationists and surveying the scientific and religious responses to evolutionary theory (view table of contents)

In 1997, even as Pope John Paul II was conceding that evolution was "more than just a theory," local school boards and state legislatures were still wrangling over the teaching of origins--and nearly half of all Americans polled believed in the recent special creation of the first humans. Why do so many Americans still resist the ideas laid out by Darwin in On the Origin of Species? Focusing on crucial aspects of the history of Darwinism in America, Ronald Numbers gets to the heart of this question. Judiciously assessing the facts, Numbers refutes a host of widespread misconceptions: about the impact of Darwin's work on the religious ideas of scientists, about the character of the issues that exercised scientists of the immediate post-Darwin generation, about the Scopes trial of 1925 and its consequences for American schools, and about the regional and denominational distribution of pro- and anti-evolutionary sentiments. Displaying the expertise that has made Numbers one of the most respected historians of his generation, Darwinism Comes to America provides a much-needed historical perspective on today's quarrels about creationism and evolution--and illuminates the specifically American nature of this struggle. (view table of contents)

Addresses the recent societal changes occurring in the areas of race, poverty, violence, economics, pregnancy, the Internet, privacy, and epidemiology.

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 arrangements, while revealing that neither distance from Darwin's home at Down nor size of community greatly influenced how various regions responded to Darwinism. Essays spanning the world from Great Britain and North America to Australia and New Zealand explore the various meanings for Darwinism in these widely separated locales, while other chapters focus on the difference it made in the debates over evolution. (view table of contents)

Product Description: First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Historical Essays on the Education of American Physicians.

Product Description: In America, as in Britain, the Victorian era enjoyed a long life, stretching from the 1830s to the 1910s. It marked the transition from a pre-modern to a modern way of life. Ellen Harmon White's life (1827-1915) spanned those years and then some, but the last three months of a single year, 1844, served as the pivot for everything else...read more

With more than 1,400 entries written by 900 historians, this sweeping history of the U.S. covers social, cultural, intellectual, artistic, and religious trends across three hundred years. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Biography. Trade paperback reprint. New in publisher's shrink wrap.