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My Revision Notes: Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: Medicine in Britain, c1250-present and The British sector of the Western Front, 1914-18
Sam Slater
My Revision Notes: Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: Medicine in Britain, c1250-present and The British sector of the Western Front, 1914-18
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Exam Board: Pearson Edexcel
Level: GCSE
Subject: History
First teaching: September 2016
First exams: Summer 2018

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Language
English
ISBN
9781510403031
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Contents and revision planner
Part 1: Medicine in Britain, c.1250–present
An overview of medicine from c.1250
The role of factors
c.1250–c.1500: Medicine in medieval England
1 Ideas about the cause of disease and illness
1.1 Supernatural and religious explanations
1.2 Rational explanations
2 Approaches to prevention and treatment
2.1 Approaches to prevention and treatment and their connection with ideas about disease and illness
2.2 New and traditional approaches to hospital care in the thirteenth century
3 Case study
3.1 Dealing with the Black Death, 1348–49
c.1500–c.1700: The Medical Renaissance in England
1 Ideas about the cause of disease and illness
1.1 Continuity in explanations of the cause of disease and illness
1.2 Changes in explanations of the cause of disease and illness
2 Approaches to prevention and treatment 1
2.1 Continuity in approaches to prevention, treatment and care
2.2 Change in approaches to prevention, treatment and care
2.3 Dealing with the Great Plague in London in 1665
3 Approaches to prevention and treatment 2
3.1 Changes in care and treatment
3.2 William Harvey and the discovery of the circulation of the blood
c.1700–c.1900: Medicine in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain
1 Ideas about the cause of disease and illness
1.1 Continuity and changes in explanations of the cause of disease and illness
1.2 The influence of Pasteur’s Germ Theory
1.3 Koch’s work on microbes
2 Approaches to prevention and treatment 1
2.1 The extent of change in care and treatment
2.2 New approaches to prevention: vaccination
3 Approaches to prevention and treatment 2
3.1 New approaches to prevention: fighting cholera
3.2 New approaches to prevention: Public Health Acts
c.1900–present: Medicine in modern Britain
1 Ideas about the cause of disease and illness
1.1 The influence of genetic factors on health
1.2 The influence of lifestyle factors on health
1.3 Improvements in diagnosis
2 Approaches to prevention and treatment 1
2.1 Advances in medicines
2.2 Fleming, Florey and Chain’s development of penicillin
2.3 High-tech medical and surgical treatment
3 Approaches to prevention and treatment 2
3.1 Change in care and treatment
3.2 New approaches to prevention
3.3 The fight against lung cancer in the twenty-first century
Part 2: The British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18: injuries, treatment and the trenches
1 The context of the British sector of the Western Front
2 Conditions requiring medical treatment on the Western Front
3 Helping the wounded on the Western Front
4 The impact of the Western Front on medicine and surgery 1
5 The impact of the Western Front on medicine and surgery 2
Exam focus
Question 1: Key features
Question 2: Source analysis
Question 2(a): Utility
Question 2(b): Framing a historical question
Question 3: Similarity or difference
Question 4: Causation
Question 5 and 6: A judgement about change, continuity and significance
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