Medicine & health care in early Christianity

Ferngren, Gary B.

Medicine & health care in early Christianity [electronic resource] / Medicine and health care in early Christianity Gary B. Ferngren. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. - xi, 246 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-237) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
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2013.
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Medicine--History--To 1500.
Medicine--Religious aspects--History--To 1500.
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.


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