Avalos, Hector.

Health care and the rise of Christianity / Hector Avalos. - Peabody, Mass. : Hendrickson Publishers, c1999. - viii, 166 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-156) and indexes.

Health care as a system -- The Israelite health care systems -- Major Greco-Roman traditions -- The socioreligious frameworks -- Therapeutic strategies -- Economics -- Geographical accessibility -- Time -- Comparative synthesis.

9781565633377 (pbk.) 1565633377 (pbk.)

99011023


Healing--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.
Healing--Religious aspects--History of doctrines.
Medicine, Greek and Roman

BT732.2 / .A93 1999

261.8/321/09015