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This book provides teachers with practical exercises that can be regularly injected into their teaching and learning of the History of Medicine to develop, gradually, students' skills of source analysis and evaluation which will be assessed in the Paper 2 examination. It also provides valuable teaching material for the knowledge and understanding requirements of Paper 1. Part 1 provides an introduction to handling source based questions on the History of Medicine: how to use historical sources; a model analysis of a cartoon, a written source, a set of statistics, a drawing; advice (do's and don'ts) on how to answer source questions, model answers analysed for two or three questions. Part 2 provides 17 Paper 2 style investigations covering all the main assessable topics in the specification. Part 3 provides help with revising for this paper and getting an overview of the big ideas