Oxford Revise: Gcse Edexcel History: Medicine in Britain, C1250 - Present Complete Revision and Practic

This revision guide contains everything your students need to know about Medicine in Britain, c1250-present. They will learn all the key topics they need to do well in the Edexcel GCSE History exam, from early ideas about disease to modern prevention. Their learning will be supported by case studies from Medieval England right up to Modern Britain.

List of contents

• 1: 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

Summary

This revision guide contains everything your students need to know about Medicine in Britain, c1250-present. They will learn all the key topics they need to do well in the Edexcel GCSE History exam, from early ideas about disease to modern prevention. Their learning will be supported by case studies from Medieval England right up to Modern Britain.

Product details

• Authors: Ellen Longley, Longley Ellen
• Assisted by: Wilkes Aaron (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781382040426
• ISBN: 978-1-382-04042-6
• No. of pages: 64
• Series: Oxford Revise
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; History, YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / History / General, History of Medicine, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Revision and study guide, Educational: History, Interest age: from c 15 years, Educational: study and revision guides, Edexcel, Standardized educational test