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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.

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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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