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Illness, Pain, and Health Care in Early Christianity

ILLNESS PAIN AND HEALTH CARE IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY

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<P>What did pain and illness mean to early Christians? And how did their approaches to health care compare to those of the ancient Greco-Roman world? In this wide-ranging interdisciplinary study, the author 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. Throughout her analysis, she 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, she engages illness, pain, and health care as sociocultural matters. Through this and other methodologies, she explores the theological meanings attributed to illness and pain; the religious status of those suffering from these and other afflictions; and the methods, systems, and rituals that Christian individuals, churches, and monasteries devised to care for those who suffered. Her findings ultimately provide an illuminating glimpse into how Christians began forming a distinct identity—both as part of and apart from their Greco-Roman world.</P>

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Acknowledgments.
Abbreviations.
Introduction.
1: Health, Disease, and Illness in Greco-Roman Culture.
2: Health, Disease, and Illness in the Bible and Early Christianity.
3: Pain in Greco-Roman Culture and Early Christianity.
4: Health Care in the Greco-Roman World.
5: Health Care in Early Christianity.
6: Conclusion.
Bibliography.
Index of Authors.
Index of Subjects.
Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Sources.

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Illness, Pain, and Health Care in Early Christianity