EDEXCEL Medicine Through Time - Renaissance Medicine

This SOW was created for the EDEXCEL Medicine Through Time/Renaissanxe 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
   ● Continuity and change in explanations of the cause of disease and
   illness. A scientific approach, including the work of Thomas
   Sydenham in improving diagnosis. The influence of the printing
   press and the work of the Royal Society on the transmission of
   ideas.
2. Approaches to prevention and treatment
   ● Continuity in approaches to prevention, treatment and care in the
   community and in hospitals.
   ● Change in care and treatment; improvements in medical training
   and the influence in England of the work of Vesalius.
3. Case studies ● Key individual: William Harvey and the discovery of the circulation
   of the blood.
   ● Dealing with the Great Plague in London (1665): approaches to
   treatment and attempts to prevent its spread.