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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.Description: xi, 246 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780801891427 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0801891426 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Medicine and health care in early Christianity
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610 22
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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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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.

Available electronically via the Internet.