Illness, Pain, and Health Care in Early Christianity Rhee Helen
Illness, Pain, and Health Care in Early Christianity Rhee Helen What did pain and illness mean to early Christians? Throughout her analysis, Rhee places the history of medicine, Greco-Roman…
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Illness, Pain, and Health Care in Early Christianity Rhee Helen
What did pain and illness mean to early Christians? Throughout her analysis, Rhee places the history of medicine, Greco-Roman literature, and ancient philosophy in constructive dialogue with early Christian literature to elucidate early Christians' understanding, appropriation, and reformulation of Roman and Byzantine conceptions of health and wholeness from the second through the sixth centuries CE.Utilizing the contemporary field of medical anthropology, Rhee engages illness, pain, and health care as sociocultural matters. Through And how did their approaches to health care compare to those of the ancient Greco-Roman world?In this wide-ranging interdisciplinary study, Helen Rhee examines how early Christians viewed illness, pain, and health care and how their perspective was influenced both by Judeo-Christian tradition and by the milieu of the larger ancient world.
Human Body in Health and Illness