Autumn Term Sep – Dec
Britain: Health and the people
- Causes and treatments in medieval times
- Hippocrates and Galen
- The church and Christianity
- Medieval hospitals and surgery
- Islamic medicine
- Public health in towns and monasteries
- The Black Death
- Renaissance ideas, technology and its contribution to medicine
- Vesalius, Pare, Harvey
- Treatments during the renaissance
- The Great Plague 1665
- Hospitals in the 18thC
- John Hunter and the Royal College of Surgeons
Spring Term Jan – Apr
Britain: Health and the people
- Jenner and Vaccination
- Pain, anaesthetics and Simpson
- Germ Theory- Pasteur, Kock and Erlich
- Lister and antiseptics
- Stethoscope, X ray machine and thermometers and their contribution to medicine
- Public health in industrial towns
- Snow and Cholera
- Chadwick, The Great Stink and the death of Laissez-Faire government
- Early government legislation on public health, including the Public Health Acts and Liberal Reforms.
- Penicillin- Fleming, Florey and Chain
- Improvements in drugs and treatments since 1945
- War’s contribution to medicine in the 20th C
- Science and technology’s contribution to medicine in the 20thC
- Reform for the working class and the welfare state
- Beveridge, the introduction of the NHS and pressures on the NHS
- Government legislation on public health
Summer Term 1 Apr – July
America: Opportunity and inequality, 1920-1973
- Causes of the Boom: Republican policies
- Consumer Society
- Henry Ford
- Roaring 20s
- The car
- Life for women
- Prohibition
- Organised crime
- Racial tension
- Immigration
- Red scare
- Wall Street crash
- Effects of great depression
- Hoover’s response
- Roosevelt’s election