The Religious and the Medical
The Religious and the Medical
This chapter discusses and maps the interaction of medicine and religion in the development of hospitals and hospices for the dying. It particularly looks at the significant role played by the nursing nuns—both Catholic and Protestant—during the development of these institutions. The chapter furthermore emphasizes the increase of medical specialties and technologies as hospitals slowly became the main supporters of scientific medicine.
Keywords: medicine and religion, hospitals and hospices, nursing nuns, medical specialties, scientific medicine
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