when a large number of people get the same disease over the same period of time

a type of germ which sometimes causes disease

when people are kept away from others because they have, or might have, a disease

The Black Death

History

Medieval ideas about the causes of illness and disease

Medieval approaches to treating and preventing disease

Medieval surgery

Medieval caregivers

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 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

Discriminatory behaviour or images, whether on the grounds of race, gender, disability, religion or belief or sexual orientation, or otherwise.

Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour

Historic or outdated representations of people that may portray inequality or injustice.

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.

How much of Britain's population died during the Black Death?

What is a situation where a large number of people get the same disease over the same period of time known as?

A {{}} involves people being kept away from others because they have or might have a disease.

What did most scholars claim caused the Black Death?

For each explanation used to say what caused the Black Death, identify the medical response it encouraged.

There were no effective responses to the Black Death.

Bloodletting was an effective treatment for the Black Death.

Mercury was an effective treatment for the Black Death.

Quarantines could be an effective way of preventing the Black Death's spread.

Flagellation could be an effective way of preventing the Black Death's spread.

Which ancient physician developed the Theory of the Four Humours?

{{ }} described the idea that bad air could spread disease.

Which of these was a method used to prevent illness in the medieval period?

{{ }} was a dangerous operation that involved drilling a hole in the skull.

Who could usually afford the help of a trained physician?

Local healers who treated the sick in villages were often called {{ }} men or women.

Starter Quiz

Which ancient physician developed the Theory of the Four Humours?