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Medicine & health care in early Christianity / Gary B. Ferngren

Author
Ferngren, Gary B.
Additional Titles
Medicine and health care in early Christianity
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Physical Description
xi, 246 pages ; 24 cm

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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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ISBN
9780801891427 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801891426 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-237) and index.
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