This section presents a series of source-based questions worth 8 marks each. Students are asked to evaluate the usefulness of various historical sources for studying specific aspects of medical history.

Example: "Study Source A. How useful is Source A to a historian studying the impact of the Black Death?"

The sources include:

• An illustration of people carrying coffins during the Black Death • A depiction of Renaissance-era surgery • A medieval illustration of skull surgery • An early 20th-century drawing of the Black Death in London • A painting of Louis Pasteur in his laboratory • An engraving of a plague doctor from 1721

Highlight: These questions assess students' ability to analyze historical evidence and consider factors like provenance, purpose, and historical context when evaluating source usefulness.

This page continues with additional source analysis questions, covering topics such as:

• The cholera outbreaks in 19th century London • The development of surgery before anesthetics • Edward Jenner and vaccination • The creation of the National Health Service (NHS)

Quote: One source is described as "A cartoon from the satirical magazine 'Punch', 1948. It shows the Minister for Health, Aneurin Bevan giving doctors their NHS medicine."

These questions require students to critically examine visual sources and consider their value for historians studying specific aspects of medical history. The variety of sources helps students practice analyzing different types of historical evidence.

This section presents a series of questions asking students to explain the significance of various individuals, discoveries, and events in the development of medicine and public health. Each question is worth 8 marks.

Key topics include:

• William Harvey's contribution to surgery • Florence Nightingale's impact on hospitals • The discovery of penicillin • Joseph Lister's work on antiseptics • James Simpson's development of anesthetics • The role of individual sciences in 20th century medical progress • Liberal social reforms and disease prevention • Hippocrates and Galen's influence on medieval medicine • Ambroise Paré's surgical innovations • World War One's impact on surgery

Highlight: These questions assess students' ability to evaluate the importance of key figures and developments in medical history, requiring them to demonstrate both knowledge and analytical skills.

The final section introduces comparative questions worth 8 marks each. These questions ask students to identify similarities between medical practices or institutions in different historical periods.

Examples include:

• Comparing hospitals in the Medieval and Renaissance periods • Contrasting surgery in the Middle Ages with that during John Hunter's time • Examining public health in Medieval towns versus later periods

Highlight: These questions challenge students to think across different time periods and identify continuities in medical history, developing their skills in historical comparison and analysis.

Example: "Compare hospitals in the Medieval period with hospitals in the Renaissance period. In what ways were they similar?"

These questions help students develop a broader understanding of changes and continuities in medical history over time.

• Source I: 1802 cartoon about Edward Jenner's vaccination work
• Source J: 1948 Punch cartoon about the NHS

Quote: "It still tastes awful" - Caption from the NHS cartoon showing Minister Aneurin Bevan

• William Harvey's contribution to surgery
• Florence Nightingale's hospital reforms
• The development of penicillin
• Liberal social reforms

Highlight: These questions focus on evaluating the importance of key individuals and developments in medical history.

• Medieval vs. Renaissance hospitals
• Medieval vs. John Hunter-era surgery
• Medieval vs. modern public health

Example: Questions typically ask students to identify similarities between different time periods in medical history.

This document contains practice exam questions for the AQA GCSE History Health and the People unit. It covers a wide range of topics in medical history from medieval times through the 20th century.

Highlight: The questions are designed to help students prepare for source analysis, significance explanations, and comparative essays on the development of medicine, public health, and surgery over time.

The cover page features illustrations related to medieval medicine and the four humors theory, setting the historical context for many of the questions that follow.

Vocabulary: Four humors theory - The medieval belief that health was governed by the balance of four bodily fluids or "humors": blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.