Medicine through time.

A five-part resource for students studying the GCSE School History Project or Social and Economic History syllabuses in the National Curriculum. 1. Medicine and Religion. Key theme: how religious and moral beliefs have always affected our views of medicine. Includes: (1) Has religion held medicine back? (2 mins.) -- (2) Ancient Greece 800 B.C -- 400 B.C. (2 mins.) -- (3) Hippocratic medicine 400 B.C. (7 mins.) -- (4) Galen 129 - 216 A.D (5 mins.) -- (5) How did Galen's ideas survive? (2 mins.) -- (6) Constantine the African (5 mins.) -- (7) Conclusion (7 mins.). Dramatic reconstruction: a case of epilepsy from the Hippocratic Corpus; Galen; Constantine. 2. Medicine and Science. Key theme: the way that practical experience challenges received wisdom. Includes: (1) When did science affect medicine? (1 min.) -- (2) Medieval medicine (3 mins.) -- (3) The Renaissance 1500-1650 (2 mins.) -- (4) Andreas Vesalius 1514-1564 (8 mins.) -- (5) How did Harvey make his discoveries? (4 mins.) -- (6) When did science change ordinary medicine?: herbs and apothecary shops. (4 mins.) -- (7) Quack doctors 1500-1900 (3 mins.) -- (8) Family recipe books 1650-1800s (1 mins.) -- (9) Conclusion (6 mins.). Dramatic reconstructions: Andreas Vesalius and fellow student John Caius; William Harvey; John Caius reading from the English Sweat, 1552. 3. Medicine and Government. Key theme: how government action affects people's health. Includes: (1) Why does the government affect health care? (2 mins.) -- (2) Manchester 1832 (8 mins.) -- (3) Government action 1830-1850 (8 mins.) -- (4) Government action 1866-1875 (2 mins.) -- (5) The failure of the reforms (2 mins.) -- (6) Women's co-operative guild (2 mins.) -- (7) Report on physical deterioration, 1904 (1 min.) -- (8) Conclusion (7 mins.) Dramatic reconstruction: Henry Gaulter, local doctor in Manchester during the cholera epidemic of 1832. 4. Medicine and War. Key theme: how war affects medicine in both positive and negative ways. Includes: (1) Is war good for medicine? (1 min.) -- (2) Did the First World War improve medical skills? (2 mins.) -- (3) Did the First World War improve surgery? (4 mins.) -- (4) How was medical care organised? (1 min.) -- (5) Did the First World War lead to new inventions in medicine? (3 mins.) -- (6) Shell-shock (12 mins.) -- (7) Conclusion (7 mins.). Dramatic reconstruction: Captain Lawrence Gameson, Army medical officer during First World War. 5. Medicine and Surgery. Key theme: how surgery has come to dominate modern healthcare. Includes: (1) When did surgery become important to medicine? (1 min.) -- (2) Early surgery (1 min.) -- (3) The surgical view of illness ( 5 mins.) -- (4) The industrial revolution ( 3 mins.) -- (5) The rise of hospitals (2 mins.) -- (6) The National Health Service, 1948 (4 mins.) -- (7) Challenges to the surgical view of illness (3 mins.) -- (8) The body transparent - keyhole surgery (1 mins.) -- (9) How will health care change in the future? (10 mins.) Dramatic reconstruction: Elizabeth P., working class woman who opted for surgery, 1844.