Ideal for Edexcel "Medicine
in Britain c.1250-present" ; AQA "Health and the people: c.1000 to the present day"; OCR The People's Health c.1250
to present"
Includes:
(Can
be adjusted according to requirements):
- Western and Islamic Medieval Medicine
- Vesalius and Paré and advances in knowledge of
anatomy and developments in surgery
- How a person’s status and living conditions affected their health, hygiene,
illnesses and treatment up to the modern day.
- Domestic medicine, hospitals and caring for the ill.
Beliefs about the causes of illness from the Four Humours
to Germ Theory
How illnesses were
diagnosed from the Four Humours to Germ Theory
The treatment of illness from Leeches to Antibiotics
(including vaccinations)
- The supernatural (from astrology to
alternative therapies).
Surgery
Includes:
- A huge display of museum-quality reproduction
surgical instruments ranging from Prehistory to
the modern day and a demonstration of how they
were used
- Discussion of the anaesthetics used.