EDEXCEL Medicine Through Time: Modern Medicine

This SOW was created for the EDEXCEL Medicine Through Time/18th and 19th century Medicine in Britain course but can be used for the OCR/AQA topics too. It has a variety of activities and resources, exam skills and revision and students perform extremely well! The lessons cover:

1. Ideas about the cause of disease and illness
   ● Advances in understanding the causes of illness and disease: the
   influence of genetic and lifestyle factors on health.
   ● Improvements in diagnosis: the impact of the availability of blood
   tests, scans and monitors.
   2 Approaches to prevention and treatment
   ● The extent of change in care and treatment. The impact of the
   NHS and science and technology: improved access to care;
   advances in medicines, including magic bullets and antibiotics;
   high-tech medical and surgical treatment in hospitals.
   ● New approaches to prevention: mass vaccinations and
   government lifestyle campaigns.
   3 Case studies
   ● Key individuals: Fleming, Florey and Chain’s development of
   penicillin.
   ● The fight against lung cancer in the twenty-first century: the use
   of science and technology in diagnosis and treatment; government
   action.