The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire - Hardcover

Miller, Dr. Timothy S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801826764 ISBN 13: 9780801826764

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985

Synopsis

Medical historians have traditionally claimed that modern hospitals emerged during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Premodern hospitals, according to many scholars, existed mainly as refuges for the desperately poor and sick, providing patients with little or no medical care. Challenging this view in a compelling survey of hospitals in the East Roman Empire, Timothy Miller traces the birth and development of Byzantine xenones, or hospitals, from their emergence in the fourth century to their decline in the fifteenth century, just prior to the Turkish conquest of Constantinople. These sophisticated medical facilities, he concludes, are the true ancestors of modern hospitals. In a new introduction to this paperback edition, Miller describes the growing scholarship on this subject in recent years.

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Book Description:

A medical historian argues that the sophisticated medical facilities of the Byzantine Empire are the true ancestors of modern hospitals.

From the Back Cover:

Medical historians have traditionally claimed that modern hospitals emerged during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Premodern hospitals, according to many scholars, existed mainly as refuges for the desperately poor and sick, providing patients with little or no medical care. Challenging this view in a compelling survey of hospitals in the East Roman Empire, this author traces the birth and development of Byzantine xenones, or hospitals.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0801826764
• ISBN 13: 9780801826764
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328