1. Your GCSE ! Britain: Health and the People
Written paper worth 25% of your GCSE grade.
You will be examined at the end of year 11
The exam will last for 1hr 45 mins.
Also on this paper will be the Norman Conquest, but we will study this later in the course

2. Lesson Objectives
To be able to identify the key elements of the Britain: Health and the People GCSE History Medicine exam
To give examples of the key topics that make up the Britain: Health and the People course

3. What will you study?
We will be looking at medicine and health in different time periods.
We will be investigating different factors that led to change.
We will also be looking at different areas of medicine!

4. We will be looking at the following time periods – Can you work out what they are?

14. Factors

15. What are factors?
Factors are the causes that have made things happen in the history of medicine.
They are different influences on the development of medicine.
Each factor plays an important role in medicine’s changes over time.
Factors can help or hinder change.

16. How do factors work?
Almost always the factors work together to produce or prevent development in medicine.
Although we will examine them separately remember that it would be very unusual for a single factor to alter the history of medicine.

17. How do we examine factors?
Identify the factors - see how they worked together - examine which was most important, if any.
For example - Penicillin
Individuals - Fleming, Florey and Chain
Second World War
The need for an antibiotic
Chance - the discovery of mould!

18. So what factors play a part in Medicine?
Warfare
Governments
Superstition and Religion
Chance
Individuals
Science and Technology
Communication

19. Warfare
War increased the need for medicine - without effective medicine there would be no army to fight!
Roman army hospitals
Paré’s ointment and ligatures
Nightingale and the conditions in hospitals
Penicillin
X-rays & Skin grafts

20. Govt involvement means health for all, not just the rich
Governments
A government needs to get involved in medicine if it wants to stay in power.
Public Health means health for all, controlled by the government.
Romans - aqueducts, baths
19th Century - Public Health act
Mass vaccinations
1948 Start of NHS
Medieval towns - Plague
Industrial Cities - cholera, typhoid, high death rates
Govt involvement means health for all, not just the rich

21. Did Religion help or hinder?
It spread ideas and education
Provided care for the needy
Kept the ideas of Galen
Some helped as they were called by God
Prevented dissection
Prevented new ideas as Galen’s fitted the Churches teachings
Dissection allowed around Protestantism began

22. Chance Chance has played a large role in medicine
What if Pare had not run out of oil?
Pasteur’s work on Chicken cholera was an accident.
What if Fleming had not seen the mould? Or what if he had cleaned up?

23. What was their effect on medicine?
Individuals
Hippocrates - father of modern medicine
Galen - Roman creator of medicine for 1500 years.
Vesalius, Pare, Harvey - the new men of the Renaissance
What was their effect on medicine?

24. Without these people would there have been a change?
Individuals
Nightingale, Simpson, Lister - nursing, anaesthetic and antiseptic
Koch and Pasteur - where does disease come from?
Fleming, Florey and Chain - penicillin
Without these people would there have been a change?

25. Science and Technology
Communications - new methods of sharing ideas, and of stopping ideas!
Science and Technology - new poor technology prevents advances, new machines, such as microscopes help it

26. AREAS OF MEDICINE ! Disease and Infection? Surgery and Anatomy?
Public Health?

27. Medicine in a Nut Shell !! 10 Time periods 7 Factors 3 areas
Shut your books – how many can you remember!!??
You will be tested on this next week!