Medicine | 4 Markers
These are practice questions for Medicine.
- What can we learn about changes in hospitals?
- What do these sources reveal about advances in medicine in this period / Medieval
- Explain what a historian could infer from these sources?
- What do these sources demonstrate about changes in this period?
- How have treatments changed over this period?
- What differences were there in the understanding of the causes of disease?
Medicine | 9 Markers
This question is compulsory. It is question number 2.
It requires you to explain why a person (such as John Snow or Galen) or a development or event (such as Jenner’s vaccination or 1848 Public Health Act) was important.
To be successful you must be able to discuss why one is more important than the other and provide specific, detailed reasons and examples that answer the question.
It is important that you practise these questions as there are only a limited number that could be asked.
Questions
- Which was the most influential in changing the way doctors treated disease? Chadwick / Beveridge
- Who has the greatest impact reducing on reducing disease? Harvey / Jenner
- Which had the biggest effect on the rate of progress in medicine? Printing press / ending the ban on dissection
- Whose medical breakthrough was most significant? Koch / Pasteur
- Whose medical breakthrough was most significant? Pare / Harvey
- Who added most to our understanding of the causes of disease? Koch / Pasteur
- Explain which was the most influential in changing the treatment of the sick? Ehrlich / Domagk
- Which had the biggest impact on medicine? Germ Theory 1861 / Jenner’s Vaccination
- Which treatment has stayed the most popular? Bloodletting / herbal remedies
- Who has had the greatest impact on medicine? Galen \ Pasteur
Medicine | 12 Markers
These are some examples of 12-mark questions for you to practise to improve your exam technique.
For these questions you have to analyse and explain the importance of a person or event, or the impact or consequences of an event.
This is a general mark scheme which shows a basic outline of how the Marks are awarded in the exam for the answers to this question.
Questions
- Why was Galen such an important figure for so long?
- What role did scientific enquiry / discovery play in increasing the understanding of disease?
- Why did Jenner face such fierce opposition?
- Why was the NHS so unpopular within the Medical profession?
Medicine | 16 Markers and 9 Markers
These two last questions on each exam paper are ALWAYS on the topic of PUBLIC HEALTH. It is vital that you are able to answer the section 1350-2000 in detail as it is worth half of all the marks available in this paper in January.
When you attempt a combination of these questions you should allow 24 minutes for a 16-marker and 14mins for a 9-marker. Refer to this Mark Scheme before you start and remember to P E E!
9 Mark Questions
- Briefly describe the problems faced by Jenner in his attempts to vaccinate people.
- Explain why there was such little progress in Public Health 1350-1750.
- Why had attitudes changed towards women in Medicine by 1900?
- What advances were made in Public Health 1900-1945?
- What techniques were used in the Renaissance to keep people healthy in towns and cities?
- How important was the role of individual genius in improving Public Health in the 19th and 20th centuries?
- Was the creation of the NHS the most important advance in Public Health 1350-2000?
16 Mark Questions
- “The Government’s role in Jenner’s pivotal breakthrough was essential for its long term success.” Do you agree?
- “Chadwick’s Report of 1842 had little impact on Public Health in the years following its publication.” Do you agree with this assessment of his impact?
- To what extent did the most important medical breakthroughs face the fiercest opposition?
- “Industrialisation created the dangerous and unhealthy towns which killed many people.”
- “The Liberal Government’s policies of 1906-11 represent a major turning point in preventing disease.” How accurate is this statement in relation to progress in medicine in the Modern period?
- How far was the rivalry between Germany and France important for medical discoveries in the competition between Pasteur and Koch?
- To what extent was any progress made in the diagnosis and treatment of illness in the Renaissance?
- “Doctors needed a medical degree from the 14th century.” How far is this evidence of progress in the Medieval period?
- “The decline of the Catholic Church’s power was the single most important turning point in the history of medicine.” Do you agree with this assessment? Explain your answer.
- “There were few advances in Medieval Public Health.” How accurate is this statement in relation to progress in the prevention of disease in the Middle Ages?
- “The Catholic Church helped progress / advances in the treatment of disease in the medieval period” How far do you agree with this assessment of the Middle Ages?
- “The fact that Galen was so wrong prevented any advances in understanding disease in this period.”
- How far is it the case that women played a limited role in treating the sick in the Middle Ages?
- To what extent were natural and supernatural treatments used side by side in this period?