History A-Level
Changing medical understanding
What Changing medical understanding means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Changing medical understanding
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Understanding of disease causes moved from miasma towards waterborne infection, shaping later responses.
Topics that use Changing medical understanding
- Paper 3, Option 34.2: Poverty, public health and the state in Britain, c1780–1939 - 1 The impetus for public health reforms (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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