The Churches Role Flashcards
Main role of first hospitals
Care for people before they dies
Hospitals were more like cares home for sick, silly or pregnant patients or old people
Motives for those setting up hospitals
Care for sick
Remission of the bishops sins, meaning get to heaven quicker
How did hospitals reflect the churches views on illness and health
They were more focused on saving the soul after a person has died so they would be sent to heaven
Also thought illness was a punishment from god
What was the churches first views on illness
It was a punishment from god and it’s was part of human condition
How did the church help to progress medieval times
They encouraged people to pray > forgiveness and after life preparation
More pilgrimages which developed hospitals
University’s were set up for medicine school
What type of church was an extremely powerful organisation in medical Europe
The Roman Catholic Church
What did the church encourage people to believe about disease
And what did this provent people from doing
That it was a punishment from god rather than a natural cause
This prevented people from trying to find cures for disease and instead all they could do was pray
Why did the church make sure scholars learned the work of Galen
His ideas fitted the Christian belief that god creed human bodies and made them to be perfect
Why could medical doctors not discover ideas about human anatomy themselves
Because the church outlawed dissection meaning they had to follow galens incorrect ideas
