Bimaristan is a middle Persian and modern Persian (بیمارستان bīmārestān) word meaning hospital, with Bimar- from Pahlavi of vīmār or vemār, meaning "sick" plus -stan as location and place suffix. In the medieval Islamic world, the word "Bimaristan" was used to indicate a hospital in the modern sense, an establishment where the ill were welcomed and cared for by qualified staff.

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  • Bimaristan is a middle Persian and modern Persian (بیمارستان bīmārestān) word meaning hospital, with Bimar- from Pahlavi of vīmār or vemār, meaning "sick" plus -stan as location and place suffix. In the medieval Islamic world, the word "Bimaristan" was used to indicate a hospital in the modern sense, an establishment where the ill were welcomed and cared for by qualified staff. In this way, Muslim physicians were the first to make a distinction between a hospital and other different forms of healing temples, sleep temples, hospices, asylums, lazarets and leper-houses, all of which in ancient times were more concerned with isolating the sick and the mad from society "rather than to offer them any way to a true cure. " The medieval Bimaristan hospitals are thus considered "the first hospitals" in the modern sense of the word. The first public hospitals, psychiatric hospitals and medical universities were also introduced by medieval Muslim physicians.
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  • Fatma A.
  • Hanafy A.
  • Roshdi
  • Régis
  • T. R.
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  • 415124107 (xsd:integer)
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  • History of Psychiatry
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  • Dening
  • Morelon
  • Rashed
  • Youssef
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  • 57 (xsd:integer)
  • 59 (xsd:integer)
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  • 55-62
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  • 903-62
  • 985-1007
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  • 3 (xsd:integer)
  • 7 (xsd:integer)
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  • 1996 (xsd:integer)
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  • Bimaristan is a middle Persian and modern Persian (بیمارستان bīmārestān) word meaning hospital, with Bimar- from Pahlavi of vīmār or vemār, meaning "sick" plus -stan as location and place suffix. In the medieval Islamic world, the word "Bimaristan" was used to indicate a hospital in the modern sense, an establishment where the ill were welcomed and cared for by qualified staff.
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  • Bimaristan
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