Summary:
This book provides teachers with practical exercises that can be regularly injected into their teaching and learning of the History of Medicine to develop, gradually, students’ skills of source analysis and evaluation which will be assessed in the Paper 2 examination. It also provides valuable teaching material for the knowledge and understanding requirements of Paper 1.



Part 1 provides an introduction to handling source based questions on the History of Medicine: how to use historical sources; a model analysis of a cartoon, a written source, a set of statistics, a drawing; advice (do's and don'ts) on how to answer source questions, model answers analysed for two or three questions.



Part 2 provides 17 Paper 2 style investigations covering all the main assessable topics in the specification.



Part 3 provides help with revising for this paper and getting an overview of the big ideas

Table of Contents:
PART 1: INTRODUCTION
How to use historical sources
What kinds of questions will you get in the exam?
PART 2: SOURCE INVESTIGATIONS
From pre-history to the Romans
1 Were Hippocrates' ideas about medicine important?
2 Did the Romans simply copy the Greeks' medical ideas and methods?
The Middle Ages
3 What did people in the Middle Ages believe about disease?
4 How far were medieval attempts to prevent the plague a waste of time?
The Medical Renaissance
5 Ambroise Paré: why did he make his discoveries when he did?
The eighteenth century
6 Were quacks any worse than doctors?
7 Why did so many people oppose vaccination?
The 19th Century
8 The Body-snatchers
9 How important was John Snow in the fight against cholera?
10 Why did some people oppose public health reforms?
11 Who was the real 'Angel of the Crimea'?
12 Did patients immediately benefit from Simpson's work on anaesthetics?
13 How important was Pasteur's germ theory of disease?
The 20th Century
14 Penicillin: who can claim the credit?
15 Was the National Health Service welcomed?
Themes and factors over time
16 Women in medicine: have attitudes changed?
17 Hospitals through pictures
PART 3: HELP WITH REVISION
Revision Charts
Chronology
Ideas and treatments
Factors
The medicine game

About the Author(s):
Colin Shephard and Rosemary Rees are senior examiners working with a major examining board. They are thoroughly familiar with the examination requirements of the major SHP specifications. Colin Shephard was formerly Director of the Schools History Project and Chief Examiner for the SHP Specification with a major examining group.

Readership:
Students preparing for GCSE Schools History Project, particularly with OCR