Medicine through time

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A Dummies Guide to Medicine

A simple introductory 'Dummies Guide' to each period, concept and personality is planned for the site. They will be written with a total beginner in mind but will cover the most important elements of each area in a way that would hopefully make them suitable for last minute panicked revision!

Below is the schedule for the Dummies Guides with links to the ones that are already live. I am deliberately posting these onto the Blog in order to allow and invite comments and questions from students. Your posts there are moderated so might not appear immediately.

Note: Publication dates removed due to problems I've had with the blog. They'll come as fast as I can manage to write them. My students be warned, you will be writing some of these yourselves...

Dummies Guide
Ancient Egypt	Live
Ancient Greece	Live
Medicine in the Roman Empire	Live
Medicine in the Middle Ages	Live
Medicine in the Renaissance	Live
A Revolution in Surgery	Live
Public Health in the Industrial Revolution	Live
The Fight against Infectious Disease	Live
Liberal Reforms	Live
The NHS	Live
Twentieth Century technology	Live
Continuity and Change	Live
The Role of War
The Role of Government
Nursing and hospitals
Healing at home - herbal remedies and popular 'common' cures
Antibiotics
Hippocrates
Galen
Harvey
Vesalius
Pare
Chadwick
Pasteur
Koch
Fleming
Ehrlich
Others to follow depending on the popularity and level of success of the above and workload in the run up to exams! Feel free to comment / ask for alternatives / different dates of publication (I've got a few 'in the bank' the rest can go live in any order people want them).

 

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