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The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire
Timothy S. Miller
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Description for The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire
Paperback. In a new introduction to this paperback edition, Miller describes the growing scholarship on this subject in recent years. Series: Supplement to the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; HBJF; HBLC; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
Supplement to the Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801856570
SKU
V9780801856570
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About Timothy S. Miller
Timothy S. Miller is associate professor of history at Salisbury State University in Salisbury, Maryland.
Reviews for The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire
A very important book that will be consulted by students and scholars in diverse aspects of medicine... Guaranteed to excite controversy... [and] engender a long overdue interest in the medical procedures of one of the great world civilizations. Isis Dr. Miller is a learned and enterprising historian with a fascinating theme. He shows beyond a doubt that the Western hospital ... Read more