The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire Michelle A. Gonzalez The lawyers

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The Birth of the Hospital in the Byzantine Empire Michelle A. Gonzalez The lawyersMedical historians have traditionally claimed that modern hospitals emerged during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Premodern hospitals, according to many scholars, existed mainly as refuges for the desperately poor and sick, providing patients with little or no medical care. Challenging this view in a compelling survey of hospitals in the East Roman Empire, Timothy Miller traces the birth and development of Byzantine xenones, or hospitals,