chapter 11- impact of war & tech

• what effect did hygeine and disease have ?

  campaigns warning of poor hygeine
• what effect did drug development have ?

  first antibiotic made in years leading to ww2
• what impact did war have of radiation therapy ?

  had developed further and was less risky
• what impact did war have on surgery ?

  • key hole surgeries were made possible (operations through small cuts)
  • heart surgery progressed during WW2
  • new techniques to repair broken bones
  • first skin graft to treat facial wounds in WW1
  • blood transfusions were made possible
• what did Marie curie do and what impacts did it have ?

  • invented mobile x-ray machines
  • allowed them to look at broken bones prior to the first world war
• what was developed during the second world war ?

  • blood banks were developed
  • 1000 blood groups were discovered
  • medical research stopped during the war