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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456596003321

Autore

Ferngren Gary B

Titolo

Medicine & health care in early Christianity [[electronic resource] /] / Gary B. Ferngren

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8018-9522-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Disciplina

610

Soggetti

Medicine - History - To 1500

Medicine - Religious aspects - History - To 1500

Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.