title: Professor Tyndale John Rendle-Short (1919-2010), British and Australian paediatrician: A life in two domains.
abstract: Professor Tyndale John Rendle-Short (1919-2010), a British and Australian paediatrician, lived a professional life of considerable influence in two domains - academic paediatrics and fundamentalist theology. A Cambridge medical graduate (1943) and doctor-soldier, he was appointed as the Foundation Professor of Child Health at the University of Queensland (1961). In Australia, he was a pioneer in three paediatric developments ('rooming-in' for mothers in hospitals, autism research and cystic fibrosis). His A Synopsis of Children's Diseases was published in six editions, was translated into three languages and was used as a standard paediatric textbook on four Continents. Distinct from this clinical domain, as a passionate anti-Darwinist his fundamentalist theology was that variously self-described as 'theistic evolution' (believing in 'progressive Creationism') and later that of 'six-literal day young-earth Creation'. He established and was the Foundation Chairman of the Creation Science Foundation (UK) and was World Chairman of the US-based Creation Ministries International. This biography is a record of this perhaps paradoxical and unique life.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia j.pearn@uq.edu.au.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pearn
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D005075:Biological Evolution; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000266:history; D000072143:Pediatricians / Q000266:history; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000266:history*; D033303:Protestantism / Q000266:history*; D012070:Religion and Science; D028725:Theology / Q000266:history; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: Paediatrics; Rendle-Short kindred; medical education; medical history; theology