Medicine & health care in early Christianity / Gary B. Ferngren.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

xi, 246 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-237) and index.

Methods and approaches -- The Christian reception of Greek medicine -- Early Christian views of the etiology of disease -- Christianity as a religion of healing -- The basis of Christian medical philanthropy -- Health care in the early church -- Some concluding observations.