History GCSE
Institutional care
What Institutional care means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Institutional care
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Care provided in hospitals, which were disrupted by the Dissolution of the Monasteries and later re-founded by town councils.
Topics that use Institutional care
- Option 11: c1500–c1700: The Medical Renaissance in England - 2 Approaches to prevention and treatment (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
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- Anatomy and dissection
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- Medical education
- Secularisation of medicine
- Challenging authority
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