Paper 1: Early History of Science, Medicine and Technology
History of Medicine track
(History of Science track not offered)
You should answer four questions in total. Answer one question from Section A and
three questions from Section B. All questions carry equal weighting.
SECTION A
1. How did the discovery of the Americas shape medical and scientific knowledge
in Europe?
2. How were diseases cured in medieval and early modern Europe?
3. What was the role of printing in the development of early modern science and
medicine?
SECTION B
4. Did the traditional gods have any place in ancient Greek and Roman
explanations of nature?
5. Evaluate the role of astrology in medieval medicine.
6. Name three significant transformations in theories of medicine in China
between the Tang and Ming dynasties, and discuss why they were significant
to the history of medicine.
7. Discuss the influence of Galen on early modern medicine.
8. Were irregular healers really irregular?
9. Did Newtonianism change during the Enlightenment?
10. Why did mechanical models of the body become so important in the eighteenth
century?
11. Did scientific images become more accurate in the early modern period?
12. What are the limits of archival sources for the study of early modern science
and medicine?