... antique medicine likewise provides opportunities to explore the relationship of religion to science and of medicine to the humanities. The authors show that a range of approaches to late antique medicine, including disability studies and medical anthropology, can inspire productive and thoughtful...

... found a natural home in eastern Christian thought, where sin (deviation from virtue) rapidly became conceived of as a sickness. 22 From these examples and through the lens of medical anthropology, with its requirement that we view the understanding of health-illness and the treatment of illness...