Health and the people – curriculum plan
A collection of resources to guide you through this GCSE AQA unit. Use the drop-down menus to find and download resources for each period.
Elizabethan medicine role play
How well do you know your Renaissance individuals?
Factors in Jenner's success - interview role-play
What factors led to Harvey’s discoveries?
How should we remember John Hunter?
To what extent did care givers change during the Renaissance period?
Knowledge organiser: Renaissance medicine
Medical renaissance revision: String game
Renaissance medicine: review questions
Why did public health suffer in the first half of the Industrial Revolution?
How did Koch develop the specificity of Germ Theory?
How did Germ Theory revolutionise surgery?
How did scientists discover that germs cause disease?
How did hospitals change in the 18th and 19th centuries?
How did scientists develop the first chemical ‘cures’ for diseases?
How did surgery develop over the 19th century?
What problems remained in surgery after the development of anaesthetics and antiseptics?
How far did ideas about the causes of disease change c.1700-1900?
Nineteenth century medicine: diamond ranking
What factors led to an improvement in public health in the 19th century?
Why did Public Health improve in the second half of the Industrial Revolution?
Explain why penicillin became commonly used
How far did surgery develop in WWI?
How did the World Wars improve medicine?
Which factors led surgery to develop during the World Wars?
How significant was Alexander Fleming?
Is Alexander Fleming the greatest individual in the History of medicine?
Was penicillin a ‘miracle cure’?
How has surgery developed in the second half of the twentieth century?
How did the NHS revolutionise British medicine?
What was the impact of war on public health in the 20th century?
How did the Welfare State develop in twentieth century Britain?
