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Document Details : Title: Early Byzantine Public Physicians Subtitle: A Short-Lived Social Phenomenon with a Long History Author(s): DMITRIEV, Sviatoslav Journal: Byzantion Volume: 87 Date: 2017 Pages: 207-231 DOI: 10.2143/BYZ.87.0.3256906 Abstract : Studying public physicians in early Byzantium within a broader historical, social, administrative, and religious context suggests explaining their decline not (only) by the rise of hospitals and by Justinian’s abolition of immunity from liturgies and of local financial support for them, as has been the majority opinion. These should rather be seen as contributing factors, whereas the disappearance of public physicians directly resulted from their gradual transformation into state officials and incorporation into the imperial administration. |
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