Year 10 - History
Modern advances in understanding the causes of illness and disease
Medicine in Britain, c1250–present
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Unit Summary
In this unit, pupils learn about either migrants in Britain or medicine in Britain over a period of roughly 1000 years. They examine one of these themes, analysing the impact it had in Medieval, Early Modern, Industrial and Modern Britain, with a particular focus on change and continuity.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to explain how understanding of the causes of disease and illness has progressed since 1900.
Key Notes
- Lifestyle factors affect people's health and can cause illness and disease.
- Understanding of the impact of lifestyle factors became more scientific in the 20th century.
- Genes and DNA determine people's characteristics.
- The structure of DNA was discovered in the 1950s.
- Some genes responsible for specific diseases have been identified by scientists.
Vocabulary To Learn
- lifestyle factor: the way that people live, including their diets and levels of exercise
- inherit: to have the same physical or mental characteristics as one of your biological parents or grandparents
- genes: information that is passed on from a biological parent to a child which controls particular characteristics
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Lifestyle factors have only been considered important for a person's health in the modern period.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Summarise this historical learning in two key ideas.
Lifestyle factors affect people's health and can cause illness and disease. Understanding of the impact of lifestyle factors became more scientific in the 20th century.
2. Define this history term and explain why it matters in this topic. 'lifestyle factor'
the way that people live, including their diets and levels of exercise.
3. Correct this common history misconception using evidence language.
Mistake: Lifestyle factors have only been considered important for a person's health in the modern period. Correction: Lifestyle factors like diet have been considered important for many centuries, but before the 20th century this was often based on inaccurate ideas like the Theory of Four Humours.
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