Medicine & health care in early Christianity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ferngren, Gary B.
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=308822
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.