Renaissance approaches to treatment and prevention

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 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 advances in understanding the causes of illness and disease

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

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How many people received the Royal Touch between 1660 and 1685?

What disease was mercury used as a treatment for?

Which of the following are humoural treatments?

bloodletting was abandoned as a form of treatment in the Renaissance period

bloodletting was only used to treat the poor in the Renaissance period

bloodletting remained popular as a form of treatment in the Renaissance period

Which term refers to a physical feeling or problem that shows that you have a particular illness?

What invention allowed books to be published more quickly, cheaply and accurately during the Renaissance period?

Which group, founded in England in 1660, encouraged scientific learning through experimentation and regular journals which shared new ideas and works?

Which physician was the first to identify the difference between measles and scarlet fever?

What proportion of books on astrology published in England between 1485 and 1707 were written by physicians?

What was observed for the first time by using a microscope in the 1670s?

Renaissance approaches to treatment and prevention

Lesson outcome

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