Table of Contents: Section 1 Introduction: aren't you glad you live today? Section 2 Health and medicine through time (chronological survey): how healthy were people in prehistoric times?medicine in the Great Empires - Egypt, Greece and Romemedieval medicine - was this a time of improvement?Renaissance medicine - why didn't the medical revolution improve people's health?the 19th century - how important were medical discoveries in this period?the 20th century - why has health improved so rapidly in recent years? Section 3 Concepts and themes: change and continuityprogress and regressturning pointscausesbuilding explanations.
