Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ferngren, Gary B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
History, Ancient.
Delivery of Health Care > history.
Religion and Medicine.
Christianity > history.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Medicine > Religious aspects > History > To 1500.
Medicine > History > To 1500.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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