Knights Hospitaller of Saint John
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31052/1853.1180.v16.n1.6916Keywords:
Valetudinaria, Xenodochia, Abaton, pesthouse, lodgeAbstract
In the field of the History of Medicine, the assistance of the sick was, from the beginning, linked to religious and philosophical mysticism. Health Temples, Valetudinarias, Xenodochia, Infirmaries, Nosocomia, Pesthouses and finally Hospitals emerged. The painful human-beings, devastated by wars, poverty, famine and epidemics, felt the influence of the political and social conditions of each period. This paper was inspired in a personal research originated in a trip to the Maltese Archipielgo, which made me revive the work of the Knights Hospitaller of Saint John, also known as the Knights of Malta, from their origin in Jerusalem, through their stay in Rhodes up to their final settlement on the Maltese islands.Downloads
Download data is not yet available.
Downloads
Issue
Section
A historic look
License
Copyright (c) 2014 Escuela de Salud Pública y Ambiente. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License which allows the work to be copied, distributed, exhibited and interpreted as long as it is not done for commercial purposes.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) after the publication process. (See The Effect of Open Access). (See The Effect of Open Access).
How to Cite
1.
Knights Hospitaller of Saint John. Rev. Salud Pública (Córdoba) [Internet]. 2014 Mar. 20 [cited 2024 Dec. 19];16(1):77-83. Available from: https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/RSD/article/view/6916
