Essential: Medicine through Time Student's book

Summary:
This is an SHP Official Text which means that it has been created by the Schools Hisrtoy Project to support the teaching of the Schools History Project specifications

Essential Medicine and Health is an accessible textbook for SHP GCSE. It covers the essential concepts and content required for examination success in Edexcel, OCR or AQA's Medicine and Health development study.

Each chapter deals with a chronological period from pre-history through to the 20th century, selecting a few topics from each period in order to build students' overall understanding of the following which are key to examination success and to clear understanding of the history of medicine:
- public health - did people's lifestyles help them stay healthy?
- causes of disease - what did people think caused disease?
- treatments - what treatments did people use and how successful were they?
- doctors and healers - who treated the sick?
- important people in medicine - who helped to change things with new ideas or new treatments?
- change and continuity - what factors got in the way of change? What factors made change possible?

Table of Contents:
1 Pre history
2 The Egyptians
3 The Greeks
4 The Romans
5 The Middle Ages
6 The Medical Renaissance
7 The 19th century
8 The 20th century

About the Author(s):
Ann Moore is Humanities Inspector in Walsall LEA. She is an expert in making history accessible to all. She is the inspiration and lead author behind the Schools History Project’s best-selling support materials for Key Stage 3 history. Ian Dawson and Ian Coulson wrote the original SHP textbook on which this material is based.