The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire

by Timothy S. Miller

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801826764
• ISBN13: 9780801826764
• Release Date: October 1985
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.