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    • MODERN MEDICINE
      • BRITAIN-BASIC
      • CAUSES OF ILLNESS
      • PREVENTION OF ILLNESS
    • Time period
      1900 19 century-2000 onwards 21" century/PRESENT DAY
    • Urban society
      • Government responsible for people's health
      • Money for NHS and research for new medical ideas
      • Making public aware of health issues so people live longer and are healthier
    • God-but not generally believed
    • GERM THEORY
      Firmly accepted by all
    • Causes of illness
      • LIFESTYLE-how you live your life affects your health
      • GENETICS-inherited health conditions
    • VACCINATIONS
      • More eg polio and TB
    • GUIDANCE
      • Doctors/NHS advise on keeping healthy
    • AWARENESS
      • Government makes people aware eg 5 a day, stop smoking, get vaccinated
    • GOVERNMENT
      • NHS funded to give vaccinations, NHS advice, make cities healthy eg laws for clean water and sewage disposal
    • SCIENCE-genetic knowledge-Angelina Jolie knew she was likely to get breast cancer so had both breasts removed
    • MODERN MEDICINE
      • DIAGNOSIS
      • TREATMENT
      • CARE
    • CONTINUITY
      • Doctors still ask about symptoms and exam body
    • CHANGE
      • Doctors ask about lifestyle and do tests on fluids eg blood and do tests using machines eg CT scan
    • MAGIC BULLETS
      A chemical kills the microbe causing a specific disease
    • ANTIBIOTICS
      A micro-organism which stops other bacteria growing
    • KEY HOLE SURGERY
      • Tiny instruments and cameras so small holes into body instead of major operation
    • NHS
      • 1948 set up by government-funded doctors and hospitals for free health care for all
    • CHANGE IN MODERN PERIOD
      • New knowledge-work of INDIVIDUALS
      • Role of institutions-British government funding NHS, awareness campaigns, fighting lung cancer
      • Attitudes in society-expectation government funds NHS
      • Science & technology-experimentation and machines developed to new ways to diagnose (blood tests, CT scan), prevent (testing, vaccines) and treat (antibiotics, key hole surgery)
    • Main cause of lung cancer is smoking
    • Technology helps diagnose lung cancer

      • eg CT scan
    • Science helps diagnose lung cancer
      • eg biopsy (checking cells)
    • Government action tries to prevent lung cancer
      • Awareness of smoking risks, help to give up smoking, ban advertising and sales to young
    • Treatments for lung cancer
      • Surgery (remove tumour) and chemotherapy (new scientific idea) to shrink tumour and prevent cancer returning
    • Penicillin
      First antibiotic, an antibiotic which stops bacteria growing in the body
    • Major progress with penicillin
      • Improvement on magic bullets-could cure many different infections and stop people dying of infection
    • Factors which helped penicillin develop
      • Individuals - Fleming (1920s) identified what it could do, Florey and Chain (1930s)- tested it on humans to prove it worked and got the US government to mass produce it
      • War-US and GB government knew they would need it in 1944 for D-Day and soldiers who were injured so funded mass production
      • Government-funded Florey and Chains first tests, funded mass production
      • Science & technology-Fleming, Florey and Chain did many experiments and used microscopes
      • Chance(luck)-spores of antibiotics WENT ON PETRIE dish. (Fleming noticing IS NOT CHANCE!)
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