Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity

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Drawing on New Testament studies and recent scholarship on the expansion of the Christian church, Gary B. Ferngren presents a comprehensive historical account of medicine and medical philanthropy in the first five centuries of the Christian era.

Ferngren first describes how early Christians understood disease. He examines the relationship of early Christian medicine to the natural and supernatural modes of healing found in the Bible. Despite biblical accounts of demonic possession and miraculous healing, Ferngren argues that early Christians generally accepted naturalistic assumptions about disease and cared for the sick with medical knowledge gleaned from the Greeks and Romans.

Ferngren also explores the origins of medical philanthropy in the early Christian church. Rather than viewing illness as punishment for sins, early Christians believed that the sick deserved both medical assistance and compassion. Even as they were being persecuted, Christians cared for the sick within and outside of their community. Their long experience in medical charity led to the creation of the first hospitals, a singular Christian contribution to health care.

 

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1 Methods and Approaches
1
2 The Christian Reception of Greek Medicine
13
3 Early Christian Views of the Etiology of Disease
42
4 Christianity as a Religion of Healing
64
5 The Basis of Christian Medical Philanthropy
86
6 Health Care in the Early Church
113
7 Some Concluding Observations
140
Abbreviations
153
Notes
155
Bibliography
209
Index
239
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Gary B. Ferngren is a professor of history at Oregon State University and a professor of the history of medicine at First Moscow State Medical University. He is the author of Medicine and Religion: A Historical Introduction and the editor of Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction.

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ՎերնագիրMedicine and Health Care in Early Christianity
Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity
ՀեղինակGary B. Ferngren
ՀրատարակիչJHU Press, 2009
ISBN0801895227, 9780801895227
Length264 էջ
  
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