Religion

Question 1

Why was religion important in the medieval times?

Answer 1

For promoting medical treatments and encouraging the understanding of illness. played a key role in the development of hospitals and schools to train doctors.

Question 2

How did religion hinder the development of medicine?

Answer 2

Insistence on work of Galen and banning of dissection of human bodies. Church dominated people’s understanding of medicine and these ideas existed for a long time after the Middle Ages

Question 3

Help and hinder religion

Answer 3

Did help progression of medicine by setting up hospitals but also limited it by discouraging the development of knowledge about the human body and the need to find a cure.