Medicine through the time-factors of change
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- Created on: 05-06-19 19:11
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- Factors of change
- War
- This improved hygiene in many hospitals because of the Crimean war
- This also gave people like doctors, nurses and surgeons experience that they would need
- Religion
- Churches set up medical schools and universities in the Middle Ages
- Chance
- this meant people like Fleming could invent things like penicillin
- Government
- In 1948 the labour government set up the NHS
- The government also set up medical laws such as making vaccinations compulsory
- Science and technology
- We wouldn't have discovered many things without the invention of new technology like the microscope in the 1590s
- Economy
- In 1909 the government introduced pensions because the economy was doing so well and the rich could afford to pay more taxes
- Ideas
- In 1942 the Beveridge report suggested the introduction of the NHS which was introduced in 1948
- Role of the individual
- Jenner pushed his ideas on vaccinations even though there was widespread opposition
- War
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