Edexcel GCSE History: Paper 1 Option 11 — Medicine in Britain, c1250-present and The British sector of the Western Front, 1914-18

What is included

What this course covers

• Topic 1 — c1250–c1500: Medicine in medieval England

  • 1.1 – Ideas about the cause of disease and illness
  • 1.2 – Approaches to prevention and treatment
  • 1.3 – Dealing with the Black Death, 1348–49

• Topic 2 — c1500–c1700: The Medical Renaissance in England

  • 2.1 – Ideas about the cause of disease and illness
  • 2.2 – Approaches to prevention and treatment
  • 2.3 – Case studies

• Topic 3 — c1700–c1900: Medicine in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain

  • 3.1 – Ideas about the cause of disease and illness
  • 3.2 – Approaches to prevention and treatment
  • 3.3 – Case studies

• Topic 4 — c1900–present: Medicine in modern Britain

  • 4.1 – Ideas about the cause of disease and illness
  • 4.2 – Approaches to prevention and treatment
  • 4.3 – Case studies

• Topic 5 — The British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18: injuries, treatment and the trenches

  • 5.1 – The context of the British sector of the Western Front and the trench system
  • 5.2 – Conditions requiring medical treatment on the Western Front
  • 5.3 – Medical treatment on the Western Front
  • 5.4 – The significance of the Western Front for experiments in surgery and medicine
  • 5.5 – The historical context of medicine in the early twentieth century
  • 5.6 – Knowledge, selection and use of sources for historical enquiries

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