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Medicine and Health in Britain:
          Medieval to Modern

  

SPECIFICATION INFORMATION:

  •   AQA

      These webpages cover the specification for Paper 2, Section A/A: Britain: Health and the people: c1000 to the present day.

  •   Edexcel

      These webpages cover the specification for Paper 1, Option 11: Medicine in Britain, c1250–present.

  •   Pearson iGCSE

      These webpages cover the specification for Paper 2, Option B2: Changes in medicine, c1848–c1948 .

  

  

Contents:

  This arrangement allows you EITHER to study the Medicine of any of the four time periods (→) OR to track through time any of the four aspects of Medicine (↓).

  

 Causes and explanations Treatments Anatomy, Surgery & Hospitals Public health

Medicine
stands still:
c.1000-c.1500

Beginnings
of change:
c.1500-c.1700

A revolution
in medicine:
c.1700-c.1900

Modern medicine:
c.1900-present