Description
Book SynopsisOxford Revise Edexcel GCSE History: Medicine in Britain, c1250-present is a complete revision and practice book covering the full topic specification, containing everything you need to know to revise for this choice of thematic topic. Build your confidence with all the key knowledge, from early ideas about diseases to modern prevention. Your learning will be supported by case studies from Medieval England right up to Modern Britain. By working through the Knowledge - Retrieval - Practice sections, you will be using proven ways to revise, check and recall so that what you revise sticks in your memory. Knowledge Organisers arrange the information you need to revise helping you to make connections with what you already know. Timelines and charts are used so that key information is presented in a meaningful way. An online glossary helps you to learn the definitions to key terms. Use Retrieval questions to check that you have remembered what you have just revised before moving on to the
Table of Contents1: Medieval England: ideas about the cause of disease and illness 2: Medieval England: approaches to prevention and treatment 3: Medieval case study: the Black Death 4: Renaissance England: ideas about the cause of disease and illness 5: Renaissance England: approaches to prevention and treatment 6: Renaissance case studies: William Harvey and the Great Plague 7: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain: ideas about the cause of disease and illness 8: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain: approaches to prevention and treatment 9: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century case studies: Edward Jenner and cholera 10: Modern Britain: ideas about the cause of disease and illness 11: Modern Britain: approaches to prevention and treatment 12: Modern case studies: Fleming, Florey and Chain, and lung cancer 13: Historic Environment: Live in the British sector of the Western Front during the First World War 14: Historic Environment: Looking after and treating the wounded on the Western Front
