Themes in Medicine: Continuity and Change

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Continuity and Change in Medicine

Students: Try this exercise to see how much you can work out about continuity and change in the Ancient World.

Students:

Want to get an in-depth understanding of Continuity and Change? The try this out.

With thanks to Mr Tarr of activehistory.co.uk for making this excellent activity available.

Interview Doctor Fox - external link to ActiveHistory.co.uk

Use the drop down menu of selected areas (which is done by period) to find out about key events and features of periods.

NOTE the main beliefs and attempted cures that are mentioned in each period of time.

Print out a copy of the interview that you have with the Doctor. Then colour code your notes to identify FACTORS.

Annotate in the margins to show whether it is an example of CONTINUITY or CHANGE.

Teachers:

Ian Dawson has an outstanding exercise about Continuity and Change in the Ancient World on thinkinghistory.co.uk. Current link - http://www.thinkinghistory.co.uk/resources/ancientmedicine.htm (Please note that this URL is due to change in early July 2007, the activity can then be found via the sites new menu / navigation structure)

Ian Coulson has produced an interesting unit on continuity and change in the first 50 years after the formation of the NHS. The illustration of this page is very handy and helps students to understand how changes have occurred during their own lifetimes. http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/subjects/history/medhist/page38_contin.html

In this unit:

Recommended Resources

Medicinethroughtime.co.uk - new site. Including Blog and use of twitter for free text / IM revision tips.

SchoolsHistory.org.uk highly recommends these sites:

Schoolhistory.co.uk - fantastic range of interactive games, revision materials and links.
ActiveHistory.co.uk - outstanding use of ICT to engage pupils.
Thinkinghistory.co.uk - a brilliant range of learning activities from Ian Dawson
JohnDClare.net - simply the best for Modern World GCSE students
History.org.uk - resources and CPD materials from the Historical Association.
Historyboxes.com - make your lessons 'real' with artefacts and living history provided by experts
Schoolshistory.com - same author as this site, just put together in a slightly different way!