Edexcel GCSE History: Medicine through time

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Medicine in medieval England, c.1250-c.1500

Lecture 1: Causes of disease in the Middle Ages

Lecture 2: Treatment and prevention in the Middle Ages

Lecture 3: Where were people treated in the Middle Ages?

Lecture 4: Case study: The Black Death

Chapter 2: The Medical Renaissance in England, c.1500-c.1700

Lecture 1: Historical context – 1500-1700

Lecture 2: Medical Renaissance

Lecture 3: Renaissance approaches to treatment and prevention

Lecture 4: Andreas Vesalius and William Harvey

Lecture 5: Case study: The Great Plague

Chapter 3: Medicine in 18th and 19th century England, c.1700-c.1900

Lecture 1: Causes of disease in the 18th and 19th century

Lecture 2: Preventing disease – smallpox and vaccination

Lecture 3: Preventing and treating disease – hospital care

Lecture 4: Case study: John Snow and cholera

Lecture 5: Government intervention in preventing disease

Chapter 4: Medicine in modern Britain, c. 1900-present

Lecture 1: Ideas about the cause of disease and illness

Lecture 2: Advances in treatment from 1900

Lecture 3: Advances in the prevention of disease

Lecture 4: Case study: Lung cancer

Chapter 5: The historic environment: the British sector of the Western Front, 1914-18

Lecture 1: The historical context of medicine in the early 20th century

Lecture 2: The context of the British sector of the Western Front

Lecture 3: Conditions requiring medical treatment on the Western Front

Lecture 4: The chain of evacuation and the work of the RAMC and FANY

Lecture 5: The significance of the Western Front on surgery

Chapter 6: Exam Zone

Lecture 1: How to structure answers to Paper 1

Lecture 2: Section A – Question 1

Lecture 3: Section A – Question 2a

Lecture 4: Section A – Question 2a and 2b

Lecture 5: Section B – Question 3

Lecture 6: Section B – Question 4

Lecture 7: Section B – Question 5/6