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Medicine stands still: Medieval Britain
1. Medieval Medicine
  1. Ancient Medicine: Hippocrates and Galen
  2. Beliefs about illness
  3. The Medieval Doctor
  4. Natural and supernatural understanding
2. Medical Progress
  1. Contribution of Christianity
  2. Contribution of Islam
  3. Surgery in Medieval Times
  4. New ideas and techniques
3. Public Health
  1. Towns and monasteries
  2. Black Death in Britain
    1. Beliefs about causes
    2. Treatment
    3. Prevention
The beginnings of change: Early Modern Britain
1. Impact of the Renaissance
  1. Challenges to medical authority
    1. Anatomy
    2. physiology
    3. surgery
  2. Key pioneers
    1. Vesalius
    2. Pare
    3. Harvey
2. Dealing with disease
  1. Traditional and new methods of treatment
  2. Quackery
  3. plague
  4. growth of hospitals
  5. Changes to training and status of doctors
    1. Surgeons
    2. Physicians
    3. Work of John Hunter
3. Prevention of disease
  1. Edward Jenner
    1. Vaccination
    2. Opposition to change
  2. Innoculation
A revolution in Medicine: c1800-c1900
1. Development of Germ Theory
  1. Impact on treatment of disease
  2. Role of Pasteur and Koch and microbe hunting
  3. Pasteur and vaccination
  4. Paul Ehrlich and Magic Bullets
  5. Everyday treatments and remedies
2. A revolution in surgery
  1. Anaesthetics
    1. Simpson and Choloform
  2. Antiseptics
    1. Lister and carbolic acid
  3. Surgical procedure
  4. Aseptic surgery
3. Public Health
  1. Problems in Industrial Britain
  2. Cholera epidemics
  3. Role of reformers
  4. Local and national government involvement
    1. 1848 Public Health Act
    2. 1875 Public Health Act
Modern Medicine: Modern Britain
1. Modern treatment of disease
  1. Development of Pharmaceutical Industry
  2. Penicillin and the work of Fleming
  3. New diseases and treatments
2. Impact of war and technology on surgery
  1. Plastic surgery
  2. Blood transfusions
  3. X-Rays
  4. Transplant Surgery
  5. Modern surgical methods
    1. Lasers
    2. Radiation therapy
    3. Keyhole surgery
3. Modern Public Health
  1. Impact of Booth, Rowntree and Boer War
  2. Liberal social reforms
  3. Impact of two world wars
  4. Poverty and housing
  5. Poverty and Housing
  6. Beveridge Report and Welfare State
  7. Creation and development of the NHS
  8. Costs, choices and issues of healthcare in the 21st Century

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