Edexcel GCSE History: Medicine in Britain, c1250–present and The British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18

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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

• Injuries, treatment and the trenches
• The context of the British sector of Western Front and the theatre of war in Flanders and northern France
• Conditions requiring medical treatment on the Western Front
• The work of the RAMC and FANY, the system of transport and chain of evacuation
• The significance of the Western Front for experiments in surgery and medicine
• The historical context of medicine in the early twentieth century

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