L.O. To consider the factors that have affected medicine.

Factors affecting medicine: Religion? Did this help or hinder? Communication? Could ideas be shared? Government? Was it stable and looking after people? Science & Technology? Did new inventions lead to discoveries about medicine? Individual Brilliance? Did one person cause things to get better? War? Did this help new discoveries?

Prehistoric Medicine. Religion? Did this help or hinder? Communication? Could ideas be shared? Government? Was it stable and looking after people? Science & Technology? Did new inventions lead to discoveries about medicine? Individual Brilliance? Did one person cause things to get better? War? Did this help new discoveries?

Factors affecting medicine: Communication: This was very weak as they did not write and lived in small tribes.

Egyptian Medicine. Religion? Did this help or hinder? Communication? Could ideas be shared? Government? Was it stable and looking after people? Science & Technology? Did new inventions lead to discoveries about medicine? Individual Brilliance? Did one person cause things to get better? War? Did this help new discoveries?

Factors affecting medicine: Communication: The Egyptian Empire was big. This meant that the Egyptian doctors could WRITE their discoveries down and share them throughout the Empire. Government: This was stable and this allowed the Egyptians to grow rich and develop medicine.

Greek Medicine. Religion? Did this help or hinder? Communication? Could ideas be shared? Government? Was it stable and looking after people? Science & Technology? Did new inventions lead to discoveries about medicine? Individual Brilliance? Did one person cause things to get better? War? Did this help new discoveries?

Factors affecting medicine: Communication: The Greek Empire was big and they wrote their discoveries down. This was good for the development of ideas. Individual Brilliance: Hippocrates and other doctors made significant progress – they invented the idea of clinical observation. Government: This was stable and this allowed the Greeks to grow rich and develop medicine. Science & Technology: The Greeks were very interested in developing science.

Roman Medicine. Religion? Did this help or hinder? Communication? Could ideas be shared? Government? Was it stable and looking after people? Science & Technology? Did new inventions lead to discoveries about medicine? Individual Brilliance? Did one person cause things to get better? War? Did this help new discoveries?

Factors affecting medicine: Communication: The Roman Empire was big and they wrote their discoveries down. This was good for the development of ideas. Individual Brilliance: Galen and other doctors made significant progress – they developed the idea of clinical observation. Government: This was stable and this allowed the Romans to grow rich and develop medicine. They took over other countries which allowed them to learn their medical knowledge. They promoted good public health. Science & Technology: The Romans were very good engineers and made very good structures to improve public health.

Medieval Medicine. Religion? Did this help or hinder? Communication? Could ideas be shared? Government? Was it stable and looking after people? Science & Technology? Did new inventions lead to discoveries about medicine? Individual Brilliance? Did one person cause things to get better? War? Did this help new discoveries?

Factors affecting medicine: Religion: The Church was the most important thing to most medieval people. This was probably because there was no strong ruler and the Church was powerful and stretched all over Europe. The Church banned dissection and this held medicine back. The Church also would not let anybody say Galen was wrong – this meant that people could not progress. This does not mean that religion held medicine back completely: the monks copied out Galen which would not have been available without religion. The Church also ran hospitals. Communication: It was too dangerous to travel so not many discoveries were shared. Government: This was unstable there was poor public health. Science & Technology: The Medieval people did not make significant progress.

Renaissance Medicine. Religion? Did this help or hinder? Communication? Could ideas be shared? Government? Was it stable and looking after people? Science & Technology? Did new inventions lead to discoveries about medicine? Individual Brilliance? Did one person cause things to get better? War? Did this help new discoveries?

Factors affecting medicine: Religion: The Church less important and people started to challenge its ideas. Communication: The Printing Press made book widely available so more discoveries were shared. Government: Was getting better but public health was still bad. Science & Technology: There was a big increase in interest of science and technology and this led to many new medical discoveries. However, most people were still superstitious. Individual Brilliance: Paré, Harvey and Vesalius made discoveries that would later become very important.

(18th & 19th Century) Medicine. Religion? Did this help or hinder? Communication? Could ideas be shared? Government? Was it stable and looking after people? Science & Technology? Did new inventions lead to discoveries about medicine? Individual Brilliance? Did one person cause things to get better? War? Did this help new discoveries?

Factors affecting medicine: Religion: The Church less important and people started to challenge its ideas. Communication: Ideas were easily spread. Government: Was getting better but public health was still bad until the Second Public Health Act 1875 which forced local councils to provide sewers and clean water. Science & Technology: There were developments in science including the germ theory and the development of microscopes. Individual Brilliance: Lister, Jenner, Pasteur, Koch, Snow, Chaddwick & Simpson made discoveries that were very important.

20th Century Medicine. Religion? Did this help or hinder? Communication? Could ideas be shared? Government? Was it stable and looking after people? Science & Technology? Did new inventions lead to discoveries about medicine? Individual Brilliance? Did one person cause things to get better? War? Did this help new discoveries?

Factors affecting medicine: Religion: Had little influence. Communication: Ideas were easily spread. Government: Felt responsible for people after they had fought in the wars. Supported Florey and Chain in the development of penicillin. Introduced the NHS, health care for all. Science & Technology: There were developments in science including X-rays and bacteriology. Individual Brilliance: Fleming, Florey, Chain & Bevan made discoveries that were very important. War: Important developments were made due the amount of causalities in the wars. The government also felt the need to support people who had fought in the wars.