Title: Medicine & health care in early Christianity /
Authors: Ferngren, Gary B.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Medicine History; Medicine Religious aspects History; Church history; Christianity history; Religion and Medicine; Delivery of Health Care history; History, Ancient; Church history
Abstract: "Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity is essential reading for scholars and students in the history of medicine and religious studies."--Jacket.
Contents: Methods and approaches -- The Christian reception of Greek medicine -- Early Christian views of the etiology of disease -- Christianity as a religion of healing -- The basis of Christian medical philanthropy -- Health care in the early church -- Some concluding observations.