Past in Question S.
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This book examines the health care available to ordinary people as well as the development in medical knowledge from 1750 to the present. It encompasses current developments in history teaching covering an extensive range of contemporary source material throughout, and coming right up to date with material on AIDS. Part of the lower school series "The Past in Question", the book is also suitable for GCSE work, especially for the less literate or motivated pupil. Questions focus on teaching the sort of history skills demanded by GCSE.
This text is part of a series encompassing the popular topics taught in years 1-3, aiming to develop early on those skills which form the basis of the GCSE exam. This volume examines how the Industrial Revolution was largely based on the mechanization of the cotton industry and encourages pupils to consider the effects of the cotton trade on the lives of ordinary people by looking at the social changes brought about by mechanization and the factory system, reactions to the new system and resulting reform.