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Their long experience in medical charity led to the creation of the first hospitals, a singular Christian contribution to health care.

History, Ancient. --- Delivery of Health Care --- Religion and Medicine. --- Christianity --- Church history --- Medicine --- Ecclesiastical history --- History, Church --- History, Ecclesiastical --- History --- Medicine and religion --- Religion and medicine --- Pastoral medicine --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Healthcare --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Public health --- Ancient history --- Ancient world history --- World history --- Apostolic Church --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Health Workforce --- history. --- Religious aspects --- 27 "00/09" --- 61 <09> --- Kerkgeschiedenis--eerste millennium AD. Eerste millennium na J.C.--(variabel) --- Geschiedenis van de geneeskunde --- Médecine --- Eglise --- Histoire --- Jusqu'à 1500 --- Aspect religieux --- Religion and Medicine --- History, Ancient --- Médecine --- Christianisme --- Jusqu'à 1500 --- 30-600 (Église primitive) --- 30-600 (Église primitive)

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Medicine and Religion is the first book to comprehensively examine the relationship between medicine and religion in the Western tradition from ancient times to the modern era. Beginning with the earliest attempts to heal the body and account for the meaning of illness in the ancient Near East, historian Gary B. Ferngren describes how the polytheistic religions of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome and the monotheistic faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have complemented medicine in the ancient, medieval, and modern periods. Ferngren paints a broad and detailed portrait of how humans throughout the ages have drawn on specific values of diverse religious traditions in caring for the body. Religious perspectives have informed both the treatment of disease and the provision of health care. And, while tensions have sometimes existed, relations between medicine and religion have often been cooperative and mutually beneficial. Religious beliefs provided a framework for explaining disease and suffering that was larger than medicine alone could offer. These beliefs furnished a theological basis for a compassionate care of the sick that led to the creation of the hospital and a long tradition of charitable medicine. -- Back cover.

Comparative religion --- History of human medicine --- History of civilization --- Medicine --- Médecine --- Religious aspects --- History --- Aspect religieux --- Histoire --- 61 <09> --- 215 --- Geschiedenis van de geneeskunde --- Godsdienst en wetenschap --- 61 <09> Geschiedenis van de geneeskunde --- Médecine --- Medicine and religion --- Religion and medicine --- Pastoral medicine --- 61 <09> History of medicine --- History of medicine --- Health Workforce

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Philosophy of science --- History of philosophy --- Religious studies --- Europe