The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire by Timothy S. Miller

The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire

Supplement to the Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Timothy S. Miller

328 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history slow-paced
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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 p...

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