Question

“The Role of the Church was the main reason why there was so little change in Medicine in Middle Ages”. How far do u agree?

Answer 1

Answer: Medicine was inseparable from religious dogmas and the church.

Explanation:

The church was an integral part of everyday medieval life. She was involved in every segment of life, including medicine. There was no progress in medieval medicine since the church ruled out a scientific approach. All knowledge about medicine was taken from antiquity, and there was no progress in absorbing new knowledge in that context. Medicine in the Middle Ages was related to the spiritual; it was based on the belief in the spiritual's inseparability from the material, that is, the body from the soul.

Diseases were attributed to sin either individually or collectively, like the outbreak of epidemics. The fight against diseases was often reduced to the individual, the family took care of the patient, which was almost a common method in the Middle Ages. Progress was recorded only in the twelfth century with the founding of a university and the translation of certain texts from the Arabic language.