LESSONS

• 6 PRE-HISTORIC MEDICINE Students examine the problems of researching pre-historic medicine.
• 8 EGYPTIAN MEDICINE Students look at change and continuity and the influence of religion in medicine.
• 10 GREEK MEDICINE Students examine Greek medicine, including Hippocrates and natural causes of disease.
• 12 ROMAN MEDICINE Students examine preventative medicine.
• 14 THE MIDDLE AGES Regression in medical practice.
• 16 ISLAMIC MEDICINE Progress, continuity and regression.
• 18 DOCTORS IN THE MIDDLE AGES Students examine the kind of treatments available.
• 20 PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE MIDDLE AGES The problems caused by poor conditions in towns.
• 22 THE BLACK DEATH 1348-9 Students examine causes and cures for bubonic plague.
• 24 THE RENAISSANCE 1500-1700 Students examine new knowledge, ideas and technology from the period.
• 26 SYDENHAM AND PARACELSUS Students look at their contribution to medical knowledge.
• 28 VESALIUS, PARE AND HARVEY Students look at their achievements in medicine.
• 30 17TH-CENTURY CHOICE Students examine what kind of practitioners were available.
• 32 SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION: JENNER Students examine how vaccination was discovered and made popular.
• 34 PASTEUR, KOCH AND GERM THEORY Students examine how each of these scientists contributed to the germ theory.
• 36 DEVELOPMENTS IN SURGERY: ANAESTHETICS Students discover how anaesthetics helped surgery to advance.
• 38 LISTER AND ANTISEPTIC SURGERY Students examine how antiseptic surgery helped surgery to advance.
• 40 NIGHTINGALE AND SEACOLE Students compare the contribution of two nurses during the Crimean war.
• 42 19TH-CENTURY PUBLIC HEALTH Students examine health problems caused by the poor conditions in towns.
• 44 PUBLIC HEALTH REFORM Students explore how and why towns were improved in the 19th century.
• 46 HIGH TECHNOLOGY MEDICINE Students find out about the development of 'Magic Bullets' in the 20th century.
• 48 PENICILLIN Students explore the role of the men who discovered and developed penicillin.
• 50 HI-TECH SURGERY Students examine the problems facing surgeons today.
• 52 20TH-CENTURY HEALTH CARE How governments have tried to help improve the health of people of Britain.
• 54 FOR AND AGAINST THE NHS Students examine why the NHS started and early opposition to it.
• 56 HEALTH FOR ALL? Students explore world health in the 20th century.
• 58 PATTERNS OF CHANGE Students revise factors affecting the rate of change in medicine.
• 60 FACTORS OF CHANGE Students revise factors that caused change in medicine.

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