From Monastery to Hospital:
Christian Monasticism and the Transformation of Health Care in Late Antiquity
Christian Monasticism and the Transformation of Health Care in Late Antiquity
University of Michigan Press, 2005, pp. 235.
By Andrew T Crislip
Reviewed by P E Pormann
Cambridge Journals of Medical History
(2007 Jan 1; 51(1): 130–131)
The quest for the first hospital in history has occupied the minds of many scholars, especially since Timothy S Miller published his controversial book The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire in 1985 (reprinted 1997). Crislip's present monograph, based on his doctoral dissertation, contributes to this debate. His main argument runs approximately as follows.
