Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Nosokomeion
Author: Nosokomeion
Author: Medicine in the Crusades
Author: Piers D. MitchellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521844550
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Presents a detailed description of medieval medical treatments available during the Crusades.
Private Religious Foundations in the Byzantine Empire
Author: John Philip ThomasPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884021643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Thomas examines the private ownership of ecclesiastical institutions to determine the nature and extent of private ownership of religious institutions in the Byzantine Empire. This includes churches, monasteries, and philanthropic institutions such as hospitals and orphanages, which were founded by private individuals and retained for personal administration independent of the public authorities of the state and church.
The Science and Culture of Nutrition, 1840-1940
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004418415
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Modern nutrition science is usually considered to have started in the 1840s, a period of great social and political turmoil in western Europe. Yet the relations between the production of scientific knowledge about nutrition and the social and political valuations that have entered into the promotion and application of nutritional research have not yet received systematic historical attention. The Science and Culture of Nutrition, 1840-1940 for the first time looks at the ways in which scientific theories and investigations of nutrition have made their impact on a range of social practices and ideologies, and how these in turn have shaped the priorities and practices of the science of nutrition. In these reciprocal interactions, nutrition science has affected medical practice, government policy, science funding, and popular thinking. In uniting major scientific and cultural themes, the twelve contributions in this book show how Western society became a nutrition culture.
The Cambridge Companion to Constantinople
Author: Sarah BassettPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108498183
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
The collected essays explore late antique and Byzantine Constantinople in matters sacred, political, cultural, and commercial.
The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire
Author: Timothy S. MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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.
Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1564
Book Description
Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.
The Hospitals Year Book
Author: National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.