Trace 1,000 years of British medicine, from Galen and the four humours through the germ theory revolution to the NHS and modern genetics. This course covers the AQA GCSE specification for Britain: Health and the People in full, organised around the PET HATS framework (Public Health, Education, Treatment, Hospitals, Anatomy, Treatments, Surgery) and the factors that drive medical change.
Britain: Health and the People is the thematic study on AQA GCSE History Paper 2, so it asks you to trace change and continuity across a very long period rather than learn one moment in depth. Practice follows the four question types the paper uses: source utility, significance, comparison across time and the factor essay.
A question you will meetHow far was war the main factor in the development of surgery?
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How did individuals start to prove Galen wrong?
The shift from miasma to scientific proof.
Government and War as the drivers of modern health.