From Hospitium to Hortus Medicus: The Roots of Public Healthcare
The public health system is the result of a social and religious development, which has its roots in the first forms of anachoretism of Saint Anthony the Great in the East, and in the monacheism of Saint Benedict and Columbanus in the West. From the first hospitia, which protected pilgrims during th...
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University of Bologna
2021-09-01
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| Online Access: | https://in-bo.unibo.it/article/view/12457 |