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A Dowry Given, Returned, and Given Again"We will observe the same basic dynamics between health care and politics with their interrelated complexities of charity and profit in the medieval world. In the middle ages, the term “hospital/hospice” could refer to an institution that cared for the sick, a poorhouse, a rest home for the elderly, an orphanage, or a hostel for travelers. In any case, it was perceived, from the Christian perspective, as a religious house where God was served and thus was formally consecrated just like a chapel or church (Auge: 77-124). As early as the fourth century, Christian monasteries also provided healing services for their religious residents and, to a lesser degree, for their neighbors. Monastic rules mention these charitable services and remain our most significant source of information regarding the foundations of early western health care (Crislip: 103-18). Various monastic rules refer to the presence of female and male doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, pharmaceuticals, surgery, and psychological remedies (Crislip: 9-38). [3] We know that in thirteenth-century Assisi, where the Franciscan movement was born, local hospitals existed at the time of Saints Francis and Clare. Francis, himself, distributed alms within a leper hospital that was located near the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in the valley below Assisi."(pg 134-135)
