Islamic vs Christian Science

Islamic Golden Age and The House of Wisdom - Invi > .
Islamic Golden Age - Philosophy and Humanities - K&G > . 

Islamic Science
https://www.dailysabah.com/feature/2016/04/23/healing-in-islamic-science-and-medicine

Conservative traditions = retardation
https://www.scidev.net/global/education/analysis-blog/in-perspective-what-really-holds-back-islamic-science.html
myth?
http://indiafacts.org/the-myth-of-islamic-science/

Christian Church attitude to illness: Blame the victim & peddle fakery: Religion & contra-rational regression

The ascendancy of the Christian Church dates from around the time of the death of Galen. Having progressed so far, rational medicine was now abandoned. Medicine in the Bible is entirely supernatural. The Church developed the view that real practical medicine savoured of black magic. In any case it was wrong to try to subvert God's holy will by interfering with the natural course of events. It was God who caused illness. He was responsible for cures just as he was responsible for death. Even church law mentioned, in passing, that diseases were attributable to God, for example

If, by divine judgment, leprosy happens to a husband or wife, and the sick one demands the carnal debt from the one who is healthy, what is demanded must be rendered in accord with the Apostle's general commandment [1 Cor. 7:3-4], which gives no exception for this case.
(Decretals of Pope Gregory IX , Book Four, Title VIII C2)

Illness was indisputably caused by sin. The Bible said so, and so did Church Councils. The only alternative explanations given credence were diabolical possession, witchcraft and other satanic machinations. In Christendom, from AD 300 to around 1700 all serious mental conditions were understood as symptoms of demonic possession. Since illness was thought to be caused by supernatural agents, cures had to be essentially supernatural as well. Every cure was literally miraculous, and these miracles could be effected only by prayer, penance and the assistance of saints. To claim otherwise was heretical and blasphemous.

The Christian ideal was that women should die rather than allow themselves to be helped by a physician. Some women won their sainthood for doing no more than declining medical assistance. In the fourth century Saint Gorgonia, the daughter of two saints, was trampled by a team of mules, causing multiple broken bones and crushed internal organs. She would not see a doctor, as she thought it indecent. According to Christian sources this modesty miraculously cured her, and a second such self-healing miracle assured her sainthood. Today, Gorgonia is a patron saint for people afflicted by bodily ills. We do not know how many thousands of other women with identically modest Christian scruples died following her example and are now forgotten.
http://www.badnewsaboutchristianity.com/gg0_medicine.htm


Hagiography: Sickness, Disability, Psychosomatic Cures, and Placebo
http://www.medievalists.net/2018/02/sickness-disability-miracle-cures-hagiography-england-c-700-c-1200/

file:///C:/Users/Gillian/Downloads/Thouroude%20Redacted%20Thesis%20(3).pdf

Religion & Contra-rational Regression: Abortifacients, Pregnancy, Childbirth

The ascendancy of the Christian Church dates from around the time of the death of Galen. Having progressed so far, rational medicine was now abandoned. Medicine in the Bible is entirely supernatural. The Church developed the view that real practical medicine savoured of black magic. In any case it was wrong to try to subvert God's holy will by interfering with the natural course of events. It was God who caused illness. He was responsible for cures just as he was responsible for death. Even church law mentioned, in passing, that diseases were attributable to God, for example

If, by divine judgment, leprosy happens to a husband or wife, and the sick one demands the carnal debt from the one who is healthy, what is demanded must be rendered in accord with the Apostle's general commandment [1 Cor. 7:3-4], which gives no exception for this case.

(Decretals of Pope Gregory IX , Book Four, Title VIII C2)

Illness was indisputably caused by sin. The Bible said so, and so did Church Councils. The only alternative explanations given credence were diabolical possession, witchcraft and other satanic machinations. In Christendom, from AD 300 to around 1700 all serious mental conditions were understood as symptoms of demonic possession. Since illness was thought to be caused by supernatural agents, cures had to be essentially supernatural as well. Every cure was literally miraculous, and these miracles could be effected only by prayer, penance and the assistance of saints. To claim otherwise was heretical and blasphemous.

The Christian ideal was that women should die rather than allow themselves to be helped by a physician. Some women won their sainthood for doing no more than declining medical assistance. In the fourth century Saint Gorgonia, the daughter of two saints, was trampled by a team of mules, causing multiple broken bones and crushed internal organs. She would not see a doctor, as she thought it indecent. According to Christian sources this modesty miraculously cured her, and a second such self-healing miracle assured her sainthood. Today, Gorgonia is a patron saint for people afflicted by bodily ills. We do not know how many thousands of other women with identically modest Christian scruples died following her example and are now forgotten.
http://www.badnewsaboutchristianity.com/gg0_medicine.htm .
Church attitude to illness

Sickness, Disability, Psychosomatic Cures, and Placebo
http://www.medievalists.net/2018/02/sickness-disability-miracle-cures-hagiography-england-c-700-c-1200/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwifery_in_the_Middle_Ages

Medieval advice to pregnant mothers: don’t drink water, have wine instead
http://www.medievalists.net/2011/06/medieval-advice-to-pregnant-mothers-dont-drink-water-have-wine-instead/

Childbirth in Medieval and Tudor Times
https://www.tudorsociety.com/childbirth-in-medieval-and-tudor-times-by-sarah-bryson/

Medieval Births and Birthing
https://rosaliegilbert.com/births.html

Birth Control and Abortion in the Middle Ages
http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/birth-control-and-abortion-in-the-middle-ages/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortifacient
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_contraception
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_birth_control

Birth, Marriage, Children, Life, Death
https://plus.google.com/103755316640704343614/posts/ZhhfkFeRian
https://plus.google.com/103755316640704343614/posts/ZhhfkFeRian

Pre-Modern Death in Childbirth
https://plus.google.com/103755316640704343614/posts/XMUoZ4ouWqT

Helen Castor - Missals & Medieval Marriage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecrajqIAwaE

Helen Castor - Church Courts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPZAHEMUGhc

playlists
Medieval Lives Birth, Marriage, Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4mx8BBF44M&list=PLDJIWiwfNABlJMU0LDmB_m4JORMnJnS4L

Medieval Life - Birth, Children, Marriage, Death - Tony
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtakTnKQQMCzgnwhkhJrO5NE2mTuE8eN4

Medieval Lives Birth, Marriage, Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4mx8BBF44M&list=PLDJIWiwfNABlJMU0LDmB_m4JORMnJnS4L

Society: Children, Women, Birth, Marriage, Death, Dance ; Medieval to Modern - archanth
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrYzzr8yja6EXGbIsrT_V07Mvj-PZGtRt

Women, Medieval to 19th C: She Wolves, Harlots, Whores, Heroines, Queens, Scandalous - archanth
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrYzzr8yja6FbLdIk0yyO6G8MUiJSJzS7 .

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