AQA Health & the People - Medieval medicine: Why was this a period when medicine stood still?

AQA Health and the People in Britain - Medieval period.

Included is a scheme of work and lesson resources which allow students to develop an understanding about nature of medical beliefs and treatments during the period and why there were so little developments. Tried and tested in helping students to be successful.

This unit of work firstly introduces students to all of the periods, themes and factors. Then a depth study of the medieval period begins with lessons that allow students to explore the importance of Hippocrates & Galen, the ideas that dominated the period and the nature of treatments at the time. The importance of Church hospitals and Islamic medicine is studied as a contrast between the western and eastern worlds. Finally students have an opportunity to study each of the themes - medieval surgery, medieval treatments and public health (which is essentially a study of the Black Death).

All of which prepares students with an understanding of the period, opportunities to develop skills for exam questions and an appreciation of the role of the factors that their entire study of AQA Health and the People revolves around.

The lessons are designed to be used in conjunction with the AQA Health and the People textbook by Hodder.