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		<title>Dummies guide to the role of Government in medicine</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the role of Government?





The role of Government in the history of medicine through time is a look at Governments as a factor. This could be a governments decision to increase taxes to pay for healthcare; a government investing in medical research; laws that they introduce about public health or the medical profession or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Role of War</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What has war got to do with the history of medicine?  





When wars happen people get injured. This means that surgeons get lots of experience of dealing with different kinds of wounds. As the nature of warfare has changed over time, through the use of new types of weapons, this has led to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free resource from Hodder Murray&#8217;s Dynamic Learning CD</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m delighted to say that the entire contents of the Hodder Murray Dynamic Learning CD lesson on &#8216;The Industrial Revolution: Public Health of Pasteur? Why did health improve?&#8217; is now available via this website. 





The Industrial Revolution: Public Health of Pasteur? Why did health improve?





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		<title>Dummies Guide to Continuity and Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are continuity and change?





Continuity is when something stays the same. This could be an attitude, belief of a medical practice. Change is when something different happens. This might be a new attitude or belief, or a new treatment.





Why is it important that we study continuity and change?





Medicine through time is a development study so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dummies Guide to Modern Medical Technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is medical technology? 





Medical technology refers to the machines that can be used to help identify an illness or treat it. This includes scanners that can look inside the body, X-Ray machines, Camera technology and equipment used to test samples. 



What medical technologies have been developed in the Twentieth Century?



Just before the start of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dummies Guide to the NHS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the NHS?

The NHS is the National Health Service. This is a publically funded service that provides healthcare to people in the United Kingdom. This includes doctors, dentists, hospitals, health visitors and the ambulance service.

When was the NHS started?

The NHS started on July 5th, 1948. This followed a series of debates and government studies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dummies Guide to the Liberal Reforms</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What were the Liberal Reforms?
The Liberal Reforms were a series of government measures designed to help people who couldn&#8217;t help themselves. They included the introduction of National Insurance which included a contribution from the emplyee, employer and government which would be used to pay sick pay and unemployment benefits; Old Age Pensions were introduced; Free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dummies Guide to The Fight against Infectious Disease</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are infectious diseases?
Infectious diseases are illnesses that can be transmitted from person to person or spread through the air or water. They are spread by microbes which cannot be seen by the naked eye. Examples of infectious diseases in the past are the plague, smallpox and cholera. In recent years we have had outbreaks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apologies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry that the blog has been offline for the past week or so. For some reason the database decided to stop working and its taken a week to identify the error and get it fixed. The timetable for dummies guides will be amended to take into account the blip&#8230; (and back-ups will be made fairly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Dummies Guide to: Public Health in the Industrial Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is Public Health?
Public Health are things that a government does to try and ensure that things are clean and healthy for the public. Things like providing sewers, clean water etc. 
When was the Industrial Revolution?
Most of the events that I&#8217;ll be talking about here happened in the 19th century. Industrialisation started a little earlier [...]]]></description>
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