Freestyle and Freestyle Express: A Painful History of Medicine
This series traces the extraordinary, sometimes gruesome and even bizarre development of medicine throughout the ages. Medical breakthroughs from ancient civilisations right up to the modern age, and even into the future, are put into social and cultural contexts. Incredible practices, fascinating beliefs and medical theories, some of which are considered harmful today, are revealed.
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Uses graphic images, eye-witness records, reports from recent newspapers and personal accounts (including remarkable recoveries).
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Includes feature boxes that compare old practices with modern technology, such as the role of modern anaesthesia compared to early operations without anaesthetic.
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Entices readers with little interest in history or science to begin to take an interest in these subject areas.
The Freestyle Express series runs parallel to the Freestyle series, using simplified, levelled text and an attractive layout with a clear sequence, making it easy for the less confident reader to follow.
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Designed for 11-15 year old pupils with a reading age of 8 years.
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Incorporates a lowered text level that allows struggling readers to access and understand the curriculum basics.
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Can be used in the classroom or library in conjunction with the Freestyle version.