Medicine and health care in early Christianity
By: Gary B. Ferngren.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780801891427
Subjects: Medicine -- History -- To 1500; Medicine -- Religious aspects -- History -- To 1500; Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Christianity -- history; Religion and Medicine; Delivery of Health Care -- history; History, Ancient
Description: "Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity is essential reading for scholars and students in the history of medicine and religious studies."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Methods and approaches; title: The Christian reception of Greek medicine; title: Early Christian views of the etiology of disease; title: Christianity as a religion of healing; title: The basis of Christian medical philanthropy; title: Health care in the early church; title: Some concluding observations.