BOOK
Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History Medicine through time, c1250-present Student Book
(2017)
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Book Details
Abstract
Exam Board: Edexcel
Level: GCSE
Subject: History
First teaching: September 2016
First exams: Summer 2018
Series Editor: Angela Leonard
This Student Book:
- covers the essential content in the new specification in an engaging way, using detailed narrative, sources, timelines, key words, helpful activities and extension material
- uses the 'Thinking Historically' approach and activities to help develop conceptual understanding of areas such as evidence, interpretations, causation and change, through targeted activities
- has 'Writing Historically' features that focus on the writing skills most important to historical success. This literacy support uses the proven Grammar for Writing approach used in many English departments
- includes lots of exam guidance, with practice questions, sources, sample answers and tips to support preparation for GCSE assessments.
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Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Contents | 4 | ||
| Timeline | 10 | ||
| Chapter 1: c1250-c1500: Medicine in medieval England | 12 | ||
| 1.1: Ideas about the cause of disease and illness | 13 | ||
| Supernatural and religious explanations of the causes of disease | 13 | ||
| The Theory of the Four Humours | 15 | ||
| Classical thinking in the Middle Ages | 18 | ||
| Influences on ideas about the cause of disease | 20 | ||
| 1.2: Approaches to treatment and prevention | 22 | ||
| Religious and supernatural treatments | 22 | ||
| Humoural treatments | 23 | ||
| Preventing disease | 26 | ||
| Medieval ‘medics’ | 27 | ||
| Caring for the sick: hospitals and the home | 29 | ||
| 1.3: Dealing with the Black Death, 1348-49 | 32 | ||
| The Black Death | 32 | ||
| Causes of the Black Death | 33 | ||
| Treatments of the Black Death | 33 | ||
| Preventing the Black Death | 34 | ||
| Recap page c1250-c1500 | 37 | ||
| Writing Historically | 38 | ||
| Chapter 2: c1500-c1700: The Medical Renaissance in England | 40 | ||
| 2.1: Ideas about the cause of disease and illness | 41 | ||
| Ideas about disease and illness: change and continuity | 41 | ||
| A scientific approach to diagnosis | 44 | ||
| Improved communications | 45 | ||
| 2.2: Approaches to prevention and treatment | 49 | ||
| Treatment: change and continuity | 49 | ||
| Prevention: change and continuity | 50 | ||
| Medical care: change and continuity | 52 | ||
| Caring for the sick: change and continuity | 55 | ||
| 2.3: William Harvey | 58 | ||
| Harvey’s research | 58 | ||
| Factors enabling Harvey’s discoveries | 59 | ||
| The impact of Harvey | 60 | ||
| 2.4: Dealing with the Great Plague in London, 1665 | 61 | ||
| Ideas about the causes of the Great Plague | 61 | ||
| Approaches to treatment of the Great Plague | 62 | ||
| Approaches to preventing the Great Plague | 62 | ||
| Recap page c1500-c1700 | 65 | ||
| Writing Historically | 66 | ||
| Chapter 3: c1700-c1900: Medicine in18th and 19th-century Britain | 68 | ||
| 3.1: Ideas about the cause of disease and illness | 69 | ||
| Continuity and change | 69 | ||
| Medical breakthrough: Germ Theory | 69 | ||
| 3.2: Approaches to prevention and treatment | 76 | ||
| The extent of change in care and treatment | 76 | ||
| Improvements in hospitals and the influence of Florence Nightingale | 76 | ||
| Improvements in surgical treatment | 80 | ||
| New approaches to prevention: the development and use of vaccinations | 87 | ||
| The Public Health Act, 1875 | 87 | ||
| 3.3: Fighting cholera in London, 1854 | 91 | ||
| Fighting cholera | 91 | ||
| John Snow | 92 | ||
| Recap page c1700-c1900 | 97 | ||
| Writing Historically | 98 | ||
| Chapter 4: c1900-present: Medicine in modern Britain | 100 | ||
| 4.1: Ideas about the cause of disease and illness | 101 | ||
| Advances in understanding: the influence of genetic and lifestyle factors on health | 101 | ||
| Improvements in diagnosis: the impact of the availability of blood tests, scans and monitors | 105 | ||
| 4.2: Approaches to prevention and treatment | 107 | ||
| Medical treatments | 107 | ||
| Medical care: impact of the NHS | 110 | ||
| The extent of change in care and treatment | 112 | ||
| Preventing disease | 113 | ||
| 4.3: Fleming, Florey and Chain’s development of penicillin | 117 | ||
| Alexander Fleming and the discovery of penicillin | 117 | ||
| Florey and Chain and the development of penicillin | 119 | ||
| Mass production of penicillin | 120 | ||
| Factors enabling the development of penicillin | 120 | ||
| Use of penicillin | 121 | ||
| 4.4: The fight against lung cancer in the 21st century | 122 | ||
| The use of science and technology in diagnosis | 122 | ||
| The use of science and technology in lung cancer treatment | 124 | ||
| Prevention: the British government take action | 124 | ||
| Recap page c1900-present | 127 | ||
| Writing Historically | 128 | ||
| Thematic: Preparing for your exams | 130 | ||
| Chapter 5: The British sector of the Western Front, 1914-18: injuries, treatments and the trenches | 136 | ||
| Sources and the examination | 138 | ||
| Provenance | 140 | ||
| 5.1: The historical context of medicine in the early 20th century | 142 | ||
| Understanding infection and the move towards aseptic surgery | 142 | ||
| The development of x-rays | 142 | ||
| The development of blood transfusions and the storage of blood | 144 | ||
| 5.2: The context of the British sector of the Western Front | 146 | ||
| Flanders and northern France | 146 | ||
| The Ypres Salient*, the Somme, Arras and Cambrai | 148 | ||
| Problems of transport and communications | 150 | ||
| 5.3: Conditions requiring medical treatment on the Western Front | 153 | ||
| Main medical problems on the Western Front | 153 | ||
| Asking questions: dealing with gas attacks | 156 | ||
| 5.4: The work of the RAMC and FANY | 158 | ||
| The system of transport and the stages of treatment | 158 | ||
| Using the range of sources | 164 | ||
| 5.5: The significance of the Western Front for experiments in surgery and medicine | 165 | ||
| New techniques in the treatment of wounds and infection | 165 | ||
| Recap page | 174 | ||
| Historic Environment: Preparing for your exams | 176 | ||
| Answers to Medicine Recap Questions | 182 | ||
| Index | 183 |