Essential medicine & health through time : an SHP development study - Student's Book

This is an entry level textbook for SHP GCSE or Certificate of Achievement.

It covers the essential concepts and content required for examination success in SHP's Medicine and Health development study.

This student book is closely based on a parent book by Ian Dawson and Ian Coulson from the Schools History Project - Medicine and Health Through Time.

It can be used alongside that book or separately with your own course.

It takes the most important tasks from the parent book and provides more structure and a clearer explanation of text, and presents it in a more spacious design to make it more accessible for students.

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: 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?And, Change and continuity - what factors got in the way of change?

What factors made change possible?