Iatrotheology

Iatrotheology (Greek iatros: doctor, healer) is the attempt, so named by Karl Eduard Rothschuh , to understand illness as part of divine will and action, even if natural causes are possibly recognizable. Illness is understood as a divine punishment or way. Characteristics of Christian iatrotheology see the causes of illness in original sin or in collective or individual "trespasses". In the Christian culture, on the other hand, Jesus Christ becomes the leading figure of iatrotheology as the “savior of the world”, as the “great doctor” ( christus medicus ) who performs miraculous healings.

The Halle doctor Michael Alberti and the Munich doctor Johann Nepomuk von Ringseis are regarded as representatives of the iatrotheological direction .

See also

• Theurgical medicine
• Iatrophysics , Iatrochemistry , Iatromathematics and Iatroastrology

literature

• Christa Habrich : Iatrotheology (modern times). In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , pp. 657 f.
• KE Rothschuh: Concepts of Medicine in the Past and Present. Stuttgart 1978, pp. 47-72.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Eckart, History of Medicine, 1990, p. 83
2. ↑ Axel W. Bauer: Axioms of Systematic Knowledge Gaining in Medicine, in: Der Internist 38 (1997) 299-306 ( Memento of October 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Heinz Schott: Die Chronik der Medizin , Chronik Verlag 2000, p. 36