Britain, Health and the People - Mock Questions and Answers

Medicine Example Questions and Answers:

1. How useful is source A to a Historian studying vaccination? (Text on image should not be read)

Useful

• A lot of opposition against vaccination when it first came out - seemed too good, Jenner was a small town doctor, took money away from inoculators (referenced in source)

Not Useful - doesn't show/mention 

• In 1853, the Government made it obligatory for all babies to be vaccinated

• Grant from the Government in 1802 for £10,000 (almost one million today)

• Biased - made by Anti-Vaxxers at the time

Structure:

1. Why it's useful - Shows opposition against Jenner (explain reasons for opposition)

2. Why it's useful - Made around time of vaccination start so historically reliable

3. Why it's not useful - Doesn't show how much the Government actually believed in vaccination - reference grant and obligatory vaccines

4. Conclusion - It is/isn't useful because…

2.  Explain the significance of Germ Theory in the development of medicine.

    Structure:

1. Point - Improved sanitation as diseases could now be explained and ended miasma theory - began in 1861 with Joseph Lister's Carbolic Spray, used to kill germs during surgery (define difference between Antiseptic [destroying germs once they're in a room] and Aseptic [not allowing germs in the room to start with].

2. Evidence - Doctors began washing their hands between handling corpses and helping women give birth and the infant mortality dropped dramatically (find date for study) and Government started improving Public Hygiene, going from a Laissez-Faire stance (the people's responsibility) to a more active role in Public Health.

3. Explain - People saw that…