Hospitals and Public Health in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Caribbean

2019 ◽  
pp. 211-232
Author(s):  
PABLO F. GÓMEZ
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Spanish Caribbean

Anglican adaptation to pandemic disease: a historical perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 000332862110610
Author(s):  
James F. Turrell
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Anglican Theology ◽  
Sweating Sickness

As churches navigate the “new normal” of hybrid/online worship and public health measures, history offers some resources that can help guide our thinking. Anglicanism has, from its birth in the sixteenth century, adapted to such epidemic challenges as sweating sickness, plague, smallpox, cholera, and influenza. Anglican theology favors corporate prayer (including dispersed, synchronous prayer) and encourages the idea of the sacramentality of the word. At the same time, it resists the idea of virtual sacraments apart from a physical gathering and rejects a eucharist at which only the celebrant receives the consecrated bread and wine. History rarely offers straightforward lessons, but it suggests that Anglicanism has sufficient resources within itself to sustain itself through even a prolonged pandemic.

An analysis of the hospitals of Sultan Suleyman and Hurrem: Two different approaches to healthcare in sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-108
Author(s):  
Pinar Kayaalp
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Modus Operandi ◽  
Dual Approach ◽  
Gender Specific ◽  
Shed Light

This study concentrates on two monumental Ottoman pious endowments, each with a major component devoted to healing. The first is the hospital of the Haseki Mosque Complex built by the wife of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent. An examination of the deed and the modus operandi of this endowment will impart a sense of the role that women of the ruling class played in Ottoman society as builders and healers in the sixteenth century. The analysis of the Haseki Hospital will be followed by an examination of the hospital that is part of the Suleymaniye Mosque Complex built by Sultan Suleyman. The differences between the two perspectives in the promotion of public health will be emphasized, arguing that the Sultan’s approach to healthcare was academic and research-oriented, whereas his wife’s was holistic and devoted to rehabilitation. The endowment deeds and the physical layouts of the two hospitals shed light upon a dual approach to healthcare with gender-specific roles affirmed and shaped by Hurrem and Suleyman the Magnificent, who each built hospitals of their own in Istanbul, the Ottoman capital city.

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