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PAPER 1 OPTION 11: Medicine in Britain, c1250 - present AND The British sector of the Western Front, 1914 - 18: injuries, treatment and the trenches

By studying this module, students will gain a solid understanding of the process of change in medicine through key features and developments in Britain. Understanding the process of change involves identification of patterns of change, trends and turning points, and the influence of factors inhibiting or encouraging change. The key factors examined include individuals and institutions, science and technology and attitudes in government and society. These are explored over four modules plus a historic environment case study.

Part 1: c1250–c1500: Medicine in medieval England

Ideas about the cause of disease and illness
Approaches to prevention and treatment
Case study: Dealing with the Black Death

Part 2: c1500–c1700: The Medical Renaissance in England

Ideas about the causes of disease and illness
Approaches to prevention and treatment
Key individual: William Harvey and the discovery of the circulation of blood
Case study: Dealing with the Great Plague of London, 1665

Part 3: c1700–c1900: Medicine in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain

Ideas about the causes of disease and illness
Approaches to prevention and treatment
Key individual: Edward Jenner and the development of vaccination
Case study: Fighting Cholera in London, 1854

Part 4: c1900–present: Medicine in modern Britain

Ideas about the causes of disease and illness
Approaches to prevention and treatment
Key individuals: Fleming, Florey and Chain’s development of penicillin
Case study: The fight against lung cancer in the twenty-first century

Historic Environment: The British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18: injuries, treatment and the trenches

The context of the British sector of the Western Front
The trench system
The nature of the terrain and problems of the transport and communications infrastructure
Conditions requiring medical treatment on the Western Front
The nature of wounds
The effects of gas attacks
The work of the RAMC and FANY
The system of transport
The stages of treatment areas
The underground hospital at Arras
The significance of the Western Front for experiments in surgery
and medicine
The historical context of medicine in the early 20th century