PRIVATE AND PUBLIC HEALTH CARE IN BYZANTINE TIMES (330-1453)
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC HEALTH CARE IN BYZANTINE TIMES (330-1453)

Summary/Abstract: It is well-known in our days that hospitals have been a Byzantine invention, as evolutionary models of welfare institutions, additionally offering medical services. The gradually conquered role that hospitals acquainted through the Byzantine centuries place them as principal centers of medical care mainly in the capital and probably in other towns of the empire. The study of the public health care versus the private practice of medicine must examine many aspects of the Byzantine medicine, the doctors, the patients and their social and economical status, as well as the adventures of the state, as many institutions were sponsored by the Church or the Emperors.

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