AA Britain: Health and the people: c1000 to the present day key terms

medieval medicine

medieval medicine is a History term for this objective because it helps explain medieval medicine, including natural and supernatural approaches, Hippocratic and Galenic...

Galen

In Part one: Medicine stands still, Galen should be used with evidence and chronology, not as a vague label.

Christianity

Christianity is a History term for this objective because it helps explain medical progress, including Christianity's contribution to medical progress and treatment, hospitals,...

Islamic medicine

In Part one: Medicine stands still, Islamic medicine should be used with evidence and chronology, not as a vague label.

Black Death

Black Death is a History term for this objective because it helps explain public health in the Middle Ages, including towns, monasteries and the Black Death in Britain with...

Black Death

In Part one: Medicine stands still, Black Death should be used with evidence and chronology, not as a vague label.

William Harvey

William Harvey is a History term for this objective because it helps explain the impact of the Renaissance on Britain, including challenges to medical authority in anatomy,...

Renaissance

In Part two: The beginnings of change, Renaissance should be used with evidence and chronology, not as a vague label.

John Hunter

John Hunter is a History term for this objective because it helps explain dealing with disease, including traditional and new treatments, quackery, plague, hospital growth,...

John Hunter

In Part two: The beginnings of change, John Hunter should be used with evidence and chronology, not as a vague label.

inoculation

inoculation is a History term for this objective because it helps explain prevention of disease, including inoculation, Edward Jenner, vaccination and opposition to change in...

Edward Jenner

In Part two: The beginnings of change, Edward Jenner should be used with evidence and chronology, not as a vague label.

Germ Theory

Germ Theory is a History term for this objective because it helps explain the development of Germ Theory and its impact on disease treatment in Britain, including Pasteur,...

Pasteur

In Part three: A revolution in medicine, Pasteur should be used with evidence and chronology, not as a vague label.

anaesthetics

anaesthetics is a History term for this objective because it helps explain revolution in surgery, including anaesthetics, Simpson, chloroform, antiseptics, Lister, carbolic...

Lister

In Part three: A revolution in medicine, Lister should be used with evidence and chronology, not as a vague label.

cholera

cholera is a History term for this objective because it helps explain improvements in public health, including industrial Britain, cholera, public health reformers, local...

Public Health Acts

In Part three: A revolution in medicine, Public Health Acts should be used with evidence and chronology, not as a vague label.

pharmaceutical industry

pharmaceutical industry is a History term for this objective because it helps explain modern treatment of disease, including the pharmaceutical industry, penicillin discovery...

penicillin

In Part four: Modern medicine, penicillin should be used with evidence and chronology, not as a vague label.

plastic surgery

plastic surgery is a History term for this objective because it helps explain the impact of war and technology on surgery, including plastic surgery, blood transfusions,...

plastic surgery

In Part four: Modern medicine, plastic surgery should be used with evidence and chronology, not as a vague label.

NHS

NHS is a History term for this objective because it helps explain modern public health, including Booth, Rowntree, the Boer War, Liberal social reforms, world wars, poverty,......

Welfare State

In Part four: Modern medicine, Welfare State should be used with evidence and chronology, not as a vague label.