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Hospitals of the Islamic Golden Age
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Hospitals of the Islamic Golden Age
In relation with our Christian praxis
Through learning about the history of the Islamic people, we are better able to appreciate their accomplishments and history. Hospitals are arguably the most important places in the world and have helped save countless lives over the course of over one-thousand years, and to learn that they come from Islam makes up appreciate the Islamic people and their past more than we did before. We are able to learn much from peoples of different faiths and cultures if we put in the effort to study and speak with them.
By
Michael Jovovich,
Nathaniel Eveillard,
and Hugo Cascavita
Origin Story
- National Library of Medicine, Islamic Culture and the Medical arts:
- Islam moral imperative to treat all the ill regardless of their financial status
- Caliph Harun al-Rashid
- Baghdad 9th century
- Islamic hospitals called Bimaristans
- Persian words for ill person and place combined
- large, urban structures and open to all
- 5 more built over next 100 years in Baghdad
- Adud al-Dawlah 982
- 25 doctors, including oculists, surgeons, and bone setters
- financed by the state and waqfs- charitable donations
- free hospital service
Hospitals Continued
Citations
“Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts: Hospitals.” U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 15 Dec. 2011, www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/islamic_medical/islamic_12.html.
“The Islamic World in the Middle Ages - Revision 7 - KS3 History - BBC Bitesize.” BBC News, BBC, www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zx9xsbk/revision/7.
Tschanz, David W. “The Islamic Roots of the Modern Hospital.” AramcoWorld, Mar. 2017, www.aramcoworld.com/Articles/March-2017/The-Islamic-Roots-of-the-Modern-Hospital.
According to the BBC these
advances were made due to
Islamic Hospitals:
-Greeks and Romans
-Surgery/Anatomical Study
-Anesthetics
-Antiseptics and Hygiene
-Medical Literature
-Study of Disease and Symptoms
-Female Doctors/Nurses
Impact of Hospitals
- Hospitals had many purposes:
- Center for medical treatment
- Temporary home for those recovering from illness or accidents
- Insane asylum
- Retirement homes
- Education/Training
- Non-Muslims
- Spread around Middle East, Spain
- Syro-Egyptian Hospitals and layout