Bimaristans: hospitals as institutions
Endowed public hospitals — bimaristans — spread through the Islamic world, offering care regardless of creed, with wards, teaching and medical licensing.
Why it matters
The bimaristan separated the sick from the home, the student from the book, and the profession from the guild: institutional medicine — wards, training, licensing — predates Europe's hospitals by centuries.
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Sources
- Encyclopædia Britannica — Bimaristan