The fight against lung cancer in the 21st century

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 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

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

Physical illness or injury, medical procedures, blood.

What term is used to describe situations where non-smokers breathe in smoke from cigarettes?

Which of the following is a treatment used for lung cancer patients?

What was the minimum age to buy cigarettes in Britain increased to in 2007?

Smoking is the only cause of lung cancer.

Smoking is the main cause of lung cancer.

Smoking is the second most common cause of lung cancer.

Smoking is the least common cause of lung cancer.

Lung cancer kills more people than any other cancer in Britain.

Lung cancer kills less people than any other cancer in Britain.

Lung cancer kills virtually no patients in Britain.

Scientists proved that smoking can cause lung cancer.

Doctors began using CT scans for lung cancer diagnoses.

Cigarette packaging was required to show large health warnings.

Tobacco advertising was banned in Britain, including for sports events.

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

The state of being unable to catch a specific disease is known as {{}}.

Which law was a response to the Great Smog?

How did obesity rates change in Britain between 1993 and 2015?

In which year did the British government begin providing vaccinations against diphtheria free of charge?

drinks and food which were produced outside of Britain

A new tax was introduced on what type of items in 2018?

Diagnosis often involved physicians tasting urine samples.

Most physicians stop basing diagnoses on the Theory of Four Humours.

Exit Quiz

What term is used to describe situations where non-smokers breathe in smoke from cigarettes?