Medicine through time

Medicine through time - content, activities and blog for teachers and learners of medicine through time

Lesson notes, plans and links for the EdExcel course

Please note that at the moment the first few areas simply have notes in them as I began this section after having taught these units.

Content area

Overview of medicine and treatment c1350 to present day - notes

What were your chances of a long life if you were born in 1350? - notes

How far did medical ideas from the Ancient World continue to be used in the Middle Ages? - notes and video

Ideas about the cause of disease: the importance of the supernatural and the search for natural explanation of illness - notes

Medical ideas and practices at the time of the Black Death and the influence of religion/What did people believe caused the Black Death? - activities and links

How much really changed in medical understanding in the Renaissance? - notes and video

A case study of the 1665 Plague in London - activities

Medical problems in the 19th Century- activities

Ideas about the cause of disease/What was the cause of the cholera outbreak in Soho in 1854?- activities

How significant were Edward Jenner’s vaccinations in the prevention of disease? - activities

What factors enabled the revolution in understanding about germs and vaccinations to take place? - activities

How confident could people be of good care in 19th Century hospitals?- activities

Was taking medicine actually likely to make you more ill in the 19th Century?- activities

How much did medicine change between 1750 and 1900?- activities

Why did life expectancy increase in the 20th Century?- activities

How did the First World War help to bring progress in medical treatments?- activities

Why was Gerhad Domagk awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1939? - activities

Do scientific discoveries happen more by accident or design?- activities

What changed when the NHS was established?/Why was the NHS established?- activities

Why was the discovery of DNA a turning point in medicine?- activities

How far and in what ways have science and technology contributed to medical advances in the 20th Century?- activities

Alternative medicines: a real alternative to scientific medicine?- activities

How much did medicine change between 1900 and the present day? - activities

 

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