Medicine through time

Using music in lessons helps some students to remember key points, adds a bit of variety to the delivery of content and is a ‘must’ if you’re getting students to make use of programmes like moviemaker. Music can help to create a mood in the classroom and can calm, energise, engage (or distract!) students. There are plenty of places online to find out about the positive impact of the use of classical music, plenty of examples of songs from, say, the wars, being used - but for a development study like medicine through time, the options can appear to be a litte more difficult.

Here’s a list of the songs I’ve got stored away in my medicine folder. Possible uses are noted underneath each song.

1) Penicillin Penny - Dr Hook and the Medicine Show

Fleming, Florey, Chain etc…

2) Spirit in the sky - Doctor and the Medics

Religious beliefs in the Ancient World

3) Bring me to Life - Evanescence

Black Death

4) Rehab - Amy Winehouse

Modern medicine

5) Sisters are doing it for themselves - Aretha Franklin

Development of nursing

6) Bad medicine - Bon Jovi

Overview - major mistakes or misunderstandings through time?

7) Heroes - David Bowie

Overview - recapping the key people / contributions.

Changes - David Bowie

Overview - continuity / change

9) Do you really want to hurt me - Culture Club

Barber Surgeons

10) Gimme Shelter - The Roling Stones

Public health

11) The Drugs don’t work - The Verve

Fight against infectious disease

12) The Casualty theme tune

Handy as a timing device for starter / plenary tasks

13) Jean Genie - David Bowie

DNA

14) It’s only pain - Katie Melua

Development of anaesthetics

15) The Scientist - Coldplay

Watson and Crick

16) Heaven knows I’m miserable now - The Smiths

Public Health in the Industrial Revolution

17) Spoonful of Sugar - Mary Poppins soundtrack

Treatments through time

18) Everybody Hurts - REM

Various uses

19) Jagged little pill - Alanis Morrisette

Modern medicine / changes in treatments

20) Getting Better - The Beatles

Scientific / technological revolution

21) Hospital Beds - Cold War Kids

Development of hospitals

22) Where’s your head at? - Baseman Jaxx

Trephining

23) Stuck in the middle with you - Bob Dylan

Surgery

24) Take me to the hospital - The Faint

NHS

25) Unwell - Matchbox20

Various