modern health improvements

Question 1

what surgeries/transplants were done etc. ( 5 details)

Answer 1

• plastic surgery
• first open heart surgery performed
• Kidney transplant
• Liver and heart transplants performed
• Hip replacements

Question 2

why were there so many improvements?

Answer 2

This changed happened due to various factors such as: lots of government funding on research and money from drug companies, new ideas spread quickly due to tv newspapers and the internet, attitudes from the government changed, lots of new technology

Question 3

what did the beveridge report include?

Answer 3

• Beveridges reforms included: the NHS, this was opposed by doctors but the minister of health promised them a good salary and the opportunity to still treat private patients, weekly family allowance, benefeits, school leaving age raised to 15. This was paid for mostly by taxes.

Question 4

what happened in terms of goverment after the war?

Answer 4

• Beveridge wrote a report near the end of ww2 saying what problems Britain would face after the war it was very popular. Labour promised to follow this but the Conservatives didn’t so they weren’t elected.

Question 5

what developments were there in technology? (8 things)

Answer 5

• x-rays were discovered by wilhem rontegen
• mobile x rays machines used during ww1
• invention of the electron microscope
• Minature hearing aid produced
• First pacemaker fitted (measures heart rate)
• Endoscopes developed (fibre optic cables with a light source that can go into small cuts in the body
• IVF
• The human genome project which mapped all the genes in the body

Question 6

what discoveries were there? (8 details)

Answer 6

• Knowledge about vitamins discovered which could cure illnesses such as rickets
• blood groups were discovered
• histamine discovered which led to anti histamine
• insulin discovered finding the cause of diabetes
• oestrogen discovered
• Testosterone discovered
• Crick and Watson discovered DNA leading to gene therapy, genetic screening and genetic enigineering
• Stem cells discovered

Question 7

other developements (4)

Answer 7

• IVF
• Skin grafts
• The human genome project which mapped all the genes in the body
• First sheep cloned