Which Religion Did More to Help or Hinder Medicine - Islam or Christianity?

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Which Religion Did More to Help or Hinder Medicine – Islam or Christianity?

Christianity

Helping

Christianity Helped Medicine by aiding to Public Health measures by purifying the water.

 Christians also helped Medicine by opening medical universities and followed old manuscripts on the works on Galen. Christians also cared fro the sick in hospitals.

Hindering

Christians Hindered Medicine by not searching for effective treatments because they believed that God was the healer and did not believe in medical treatments.

Christians Hindered Medicine by not easily allowing the licensing of healers, Men could become qualified Doctors but Women could not become qualified Doctors, Midwives had to gain licenses, follow apprenticeships.

Another way Christians Hindered Medicine was by not explaining Diseases appropriately for example they said that bodies had out of balance ‘humours’, the Sun and Planets and the God and Devil were reasons for Disease.

Christians Hindered Medicine by not trying to develop new ideas because the Church sent Roger Bacon to prison for suggesting new ideas that contradicted with Galen etc.

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Christians Hindered Medicine by not trying to expand the knowledge on anatomy because priests banned dissection until the 14th Century.

Also Christians Hindered Medicine by not spreading their Medical Knowledge, they believed in superstition and believed told people planets, God and the Devil controlled their lives when they had neither proof nor evidence to backup these ideas.

Islam

Helped

Islam Helped Medicine by Caring for the sick because although hospitals were rare in Britain in the 12th Century they were common in the Islamic populated areas which included; Baghdad which alone had 60 hospitals in ...

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