Edexcel Medicine and Health through Time: A development study Revision Booklet 2013 Success in this exam requires: A general understanding of how medicine developed over time. You need to have an overview of how medicine changed in your mind. Was there PROGRESS / CONTINUITY / REGRESSION from one period of time to the next. Knowledge about different areas of medicine: Understanding CAUSE of disease Developing TREATMENTS / preventions / cures Understanding ANATOMY
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Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice Death in Venice (1912) is a novella by Thomas Mann. It is the story of Gustave von Aschenbach‚ a successful German writer‚ who has lived a life of personal discipline and dedication to his art. He is a renowned novelist‚ who has devoted intense effort toward having a successful career as a writer. He lives a solitary life. His wife is dead‚ his daughter is married. One day‚ Aschenbach takes a walk from his home in Munich to a park that leads to a cemetery. As he is
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study of virus multiplication. Alfred Day Hershey and Martha Chase used the T2 bacteriophage in a famous experiment in 1952.Soon after making their discovery‚ Twort and d’Hérelle began to use phages in treating human bacterial diseases such as bubonic plague and cholera. Bacteriophages come in different sizes and shapes but most of them have the same basic features: a head or capsid and a tail. A bacteriophage’s head structure‚ regardless of its size or shape‚ is made up of one or more proteins which protectively coats the nucleic acid
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In Upper and Lower Canada of 1837‚ change in the government was demanded. But because of no change‚ rebellions were born. In Upper Canada‚ the economy was failing and William Lyon Mackenzie and other radical leaders wanted an American-style democracy. Lieutenant-Governor Sir Francis Bond Head was to win the Assembly’s support by running for the elections. He did win‚ but it did not achieve what Mackenzie had wanted. Starting a rebellion was his only choice now‚ but Mackenzie found that he had little
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When the Industrial Revolution started‚ people living in big cities lives came to be ruined. Workers worked in filthy‚ and packed conditions on a daily basis. In factories‚ and mills workers constantly labored in small areas without regular cleaning. Also‚ the workers obtained no bargaining power with their employers‚ along with the terrible conditions(Appleby et al. 307-309). Workers worked 10 to 14 hours a day‚ 6 days a week‚ with no vacation. Injuries and deaths often happened‚ because of so called
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IDENTIFICATIONS: • Andrew Johnson- Abraham Lincoln’s VP o Lincoln’s successor when he was assassinated o Got more southern states to join Union- took away the 10% plan which required ten percent of voters to take an oath of loyalty to the US • Amnesty proclamation o Common Man o Border state unionist democrat o 13th Amendment-abolished slavery o 14th Amendment-anyone born in the US= citizen o 15th Amendment- granted black males the right to vote. • Reconstruction- plan to re-establish
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bad. Disease accounted for many deaths during the Industrial Revolution. There was a lack of hygiene‚ no knowledge of sanitary care and no knowledge as to what caused the disease. Diseases that were common during the Industrial Revolution were Cholera‚ Typhoid and typhus. But the greatest killer during the Industrial Revolution was the Tuberculosis. The disease caused a wasting of the body with the lungs being attacked. Tuberculosis affected people who had been poorly fed and were under
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resulted in the eradication of smallpox. Louis Pasteur’s 1885 rabies vaccine was the next to make an impact on human disease‚ which led to the dawn of bacteriology (the study of bacteria). Antitoxins and vaccines against diphtheria‚ tetanus‚ anthrax‚ cholera‚ plague‚ typhoid‚ tuberculosis‚ and more were developed through the 1930s. The middle of the 20th century was a very significant time for vaccine research and development. Scientist were able to grow viruses in labs‚ and that allowed them too rapidly
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can lead people’s health into fatal diseases .in this case lots of human beings‚ plants and animal would die. according to Hamshahri ‚which is domestic newspaper ‚over 2 people die every second because of water pollution and the diseases such as cholera caused by dirty water. Secondly‚ global warming is regarded as one of the worst event in the world. Naturalist and the Greens are trying to find a way to protect the environment‚ whereas many people are not aware of the consequences of global warming
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genetic material that invade cells and use the cell’s apparatus for reproduction. 1.2 Identify common illness and infections caused by bacteria‚ viruses‚ fungi‚ and parasites. Bacteria Food poisoning‚ Bubonic plague‚ Bacterial meningitis‚ Cholera‚ Diphtheria‚ Rheumatic fever‚ Scarlet fever‚ Tuberculosis Viruses: Chicken pox‚ Hepatitis A‚ B‚ C and HIV‚ Influenza‚ Measles‚ Mumps‚ Shingles‚ Yellow fever Fungi: Athletes foot‚ Thrush‚ Tinea (Ring worm) Parasites: Malaria‚ Tape
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