Oxford Revise: GCSE Edexcel History: Medicine in Britain, c1250-present Complete

Publisher Description

Oxford Revise Edexcel GCSE History: Medicine in Britain, c1250-present is a complete revision and practice book covering the full topic specification, containing everything you need to know to revise for this choice of thematic topic. Build your confidence with all the key knowledge, from early ideas about diseases to modern prevention. Your learning will be supported by case studies from Medieval England right up to Modern Britain.By working through the Knowledge - Retrieval - Practice sections, you will be using proven ways to revise, check and recall so that what you revise sticks in your memory.Knowledge Organisers arrange the information you need to revise helping you to make connections with what you already know. Timelines and charts are used so that key information is presented in a meaningful way. An online glossary helps you to learn the definitions to key terms. Use Retrieval questions to check that you have remembered what you have just revised before moving on to the exam practice. Regular retrieval questionshelp to combat the forgetting curve. Finally, exam-style Practice questions give you loads of experience of the type of question you will face in your exam. This will strengthen your ability to recall and applyknowledge in their exams. All the answers to the practice questions as well as a helpful mark scheme are provided online.

Author Biography

Aaron Wilkes is one of the leading history authors in school publishing as well as being a teacher at St James Academy, Dudley. His energetic and creative style is reflected in his teaching, and his books which are loved by History teachers and their students all over the country.

Table of Contents

1: Medieval England: ideas about the cause of disease and illness2: Medieval England: approaches to prevention and treatment3: Medieval case study: the Black Death4: Renaissance England: ideas about the cause of disease and illness5: Renaissance England: approaches to prevention and treatment6: Renaissance case studies: William Harvey and the Great Plague7: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain: ideas about the cause of disease and illness8: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain: approaches to prevention and treatment9: Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century case studies: Edward Jenner and cholera10: Modern Britain: ideas about the cause of disease and illness11: Modern Britain: approaches to prevention and treatment12: Modern case studies: Fleming, Florey and Chain, and lung cancer13: Historic Environment: Live in the British sector of the Western Front during the First World War14: Historic Environment: Looking after and treating the wounded on the Western Front

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