Modern Medicine 1900-present day
Subjects / History / Medicine through Time
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The final period in our study of medicine is the most recent period - from the start of the twentieth century to the present day. Thanks to the hard work done by the medical profession in the Industrial period, the stage was set for even more exciting discoveries and life-saving inventions. The next 100 years would see developments in plastic and transplant surgery; the discovery of the world's most powerful antibiotic; and the mapping of the human genome, which provided the key to understanding genetic diseases and how the body is infected by them. External influences, such as increased government funding and improved communications, made it a lot easier for scientists to carry out their research and share it with others. Perhaps the biggest influence came from two of the biggest events of the twentieth century - the two world wars.
| Author: | Sally Thorne | Publisher: | GCSEPod® |
| Narrator: | Peter McGowan | ISBN: | 978-1-84906-053-0 |
Chapters
- The Impact of the World Wars
- Rontgen and X-Rays
- Fleming, Florey, Chain and Penicillin
- McIndoe and Plastic Surgery
- Barnard and Transplants
- Franklin, Wilkins, Watson, Crick and DNA
- Modern Surgery
- The NHS: its Inception and History
- World Approaches to Fighting Disease
- New Diseases and New Treatments
Exam Board Relevance
- Edxcel
- AQA
- CEA
- IGCSE (EdExcel)
- OCR
- SQA
- WJEC
- IGCSE (CiE)
Includes original GCSEPod image art. Additional pictorial images created by Damon Smith
Curriculum and Exam Board Information
Key Issues
- The role of key individuals: Edwin Chadwick and Lloyd George
- Why was the National Health Service introduced in 1948?
- How beneficial has the National Health Service been?
- How important have improved living conditions and diet been in improving health?
- How successful have vaccination programmes been?
- What threats to health remain?
Titles
- Medicine in the industrial and modern world c1700 - present day - Modern Medicine 1900-present day
- Medicine, c1900 - the present day
- Changes in Surgery - Modern Medicine 1900-present day
- Changes in medical knowledge and treatment in the twentieth century.
- Public health: problems and approaches to their solution c1800-c1930 - Modern Medicine 1900-present day
- Changes in approaches to treatment c1850-c2000 - Modern Medicine 1900-present day
- Medicine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Fighting disease - Modern Medicine 1900-present day
- Medicine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Surgery - Modern Medicine 1900-present day
- Medicine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Public health - Modern Medicine 1900-present day
- Title required for: Why are people in the twentieth century more healthy than in the past? - Modern Medicine 1900-present day
- MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE - Modern Medicine 1900-present day
- PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE - Modern Medicine 1900-present day
- PUBLIC HEALTH AND HOSPITALS - Modern Medicine 1900-present day
Chapters
- Vaccination
- magic bullets
- penicillin
- Role of the World Health Organisation in fighting disease and ill-health
- Modern issues in medicine: AIDS, drugs revolution, problem drugs, alternative medicines, superbugs, genetic engineering
- Impact of 2 world wars on surgery: plastic surgery, blood transfusions
- Impact of technology: X-rays, transplant surgery, radiation therapy, keyhold surgery
- Key individuals: Florey and Chain, McIndoe, Franklin, Wilkins, Watson and Crick, Barnard
- The influence of science and technology on medicine: X-rays, 'high-tech' medicine and surgery; the implications of the discovery of the DNA structure
- The fight against disease and infection: the role of research teams; the development of penicillin
- The changing role of local and central government in public health during the twentieth century: the National Health Service and its impact on access to health care
- The role of key individuals: Curie and Fleming
- Surgery in warfare from c1350 to the present day and its impact on practice
- The development of penicillin
- The discovery of the DNA structure
- The work of Fleming, Watson, Crick and Franklin
- The reasons for changes in provision: new technology; the role of governments
- The role of key individuals: Lloyd George
- New cures: the development and use of antibiotics
- The role of Alexander Fleming
- developments in drugs and vaccines
- the development of penicillin
- the battle against infectious and non-infectious disease today
- developments in blood transfusion
- modern surgery - transplanting organs and plastic surgery
- the development of public health systems
- the reforms of the Liberal governments, 1906-1914
- the introduction and impact of the National Health Service
- the continuing debate about the provision of health care
- The impact of war
- X-rays, blood transfusions
- Fleming and penicillin
- Development and production of drugs
- Heart disease, cancer and their treatment
- Improved surgery including organ transplants
- The role of the National Health Service
- Improved living conditions and diet, and their impact on health
- Vaccination programmes
- Limitations of conventional medicine
- the emergence of new diseases, alternative medicine
- new technology: printing and science
- Röntgen and X-rays
- Developments in the twentieth century: scanning and other diagnostic methods
- the discovery of DNA and genetics
- continuing problems
- the development of other vaccines
- Developments in science and technology: Curie and Fleming, penicillin and antibiotics
- the development of modern surgery
- modern surgical support
- drugs
- Christian Barnard and subsequent developments in transplant surgery
- improvements in medical education
- The establishment of the National Health Service
- costs and other implications of improved medical facilities and health care for individuals and society
- The changing role and responsibilities of government: reform of the NHS and Care in the Community
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