History - Medicine and Treatment 1.2

1.2 Factors affecting medicine and treatment

Factors - helped causes change 

              - helped prevent change

Government

helping development

• attitudes changed and government wanted to help
• more willing to fund medical research
• funded Florey and Chain's research in 1939 
• began to provide more for its population

hindering development

• they did not think it was their job to improve public health
• populations didn't value health if their leaders didn't 

Role of individuals 

helping development

• Galens work influenced medicine for more than 1500 years. This was both a help and a hindrance. Some of the treatment worked, but some followingGalenn also prevented further experimentations 
• Galen's theories provided the basis of medieval medical training
• renaissance thinkers paved the way for eighteenth and nineteenth-century scientists 
• the first vaccination showed…