the way that people live, including their diets and levels of exercise

to have the same physical or mental characteristics as one of your biological parents or grandparents

information that is passed on from a biological parent to a child which controls particular characteristics

Modern advances in understanding the causes of illness and disease

History

Medieval ideas about the causes of illness and disease

Medieval approaches to treating and preventing disease

Medieval surgery

Medieval caregivers

The Black Death

Renaissance ideas about disease and illness

Renaissance approaches to treatment and prevention

Renaissance changes in anatomy and surgery

William Harvey

Hospital care in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries

The Great Plague of 1665

Edward Jenner and vaccination

New 19th century ideas about the causes of disease and illness

19th century approaches to treatment and prevention

A 19th century revolution in surgery

The growth of hospital care in the 19th century

Fighting cholera in London in the 19th century

Improvements in public health in the 19th century

Modern improvements in diagnosis

The development of magic bullets and antibiotics

The welfare state and the NHS

Modern approaches to medical treatment

Modern approaches to the prevention of illness and disease

The fight against lung cancer in the 21st century

In this unit, pupils learn about either migrants in Britain or medicine in Britain over a period of roughly 1000 years. They examine one of these themes, analysing the impact it had in Medieval, Early Modern, Industrial and Modern Britain, with a particular focus on change and continuity.

Thematic studies

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Depiction or discussion of famine, disease, natural disasters.

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Physical illness or injury, medical procedures, blood.

Depiction or discussion of sex or sexual body parts, including sex education.

Depiction or discussion of sexual content

{{}} are information that is passed on from a biological parent to a child which controls particular characteristics.

Which of the following lifestyle factors can cause type 2 diabetes?

Who identified the structure of DNA in 1953?

How many times more powerful are electron microscopes than optical microscopes?

Which medieval idea encouraged people to follow a balanced diet?

Mendel argues that genetic information is inherited from parents

genes responsible for haemophilia identified

gene associated with breast cancer identified

Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order.

methods to cure or help manage an illness

methods to protect people from catching an illness or disease

to say what is wrong with someone who is sick

Match each word to its correct definition.

Any living organism which is too small to be seen without a microscope is known as a {{}}.

What name was given to the outbreak of plague in Britain in 1348?

tobacco was considered a cure for many illnesses

tobacco was initially seen as a cure and then abandoned by all physicians

Identify the correct statement about Renaissance treatments.

Ancient Roman surgeon who wrote about human anatomy

argued that cholera was spread by contaminated water

used dissections to correct many of Galen's ideas

improved nurse training and promoted new hospital designs

Match each individual with their contribution to medicine.

Modern advances in understanding the causes of illness and disease

Lesson outcome

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