• Web Project
  

INTRODUCTION:
For my web project, I have chosen to do the history of medicine and health, and discuss how medicine has become what it is today, specifically comparing the differences in medicinal techniques and beliefs of people from different eras.  I have chosen this topic because it is something I feel I am very interested in.  I enjoy learning about the different ways people from different eras dealt with health and medical issues of their time.  It is amazing to me how people of different cultures dealt with the medical problems of their people.  Some people didn't do surgery because they thought it was bad.  Others, such as the Egyptians, thought diseases or sicknesses were caused by the presence of evil spirits and their poisons, and believed in wearing amulets or praying in order to heal one of their ailments.  By doing this project, I learned how people from thousands of years ago dealt with medical problems that ailed their community.  I saw how they treated things like the common cold, a snakebite, the flu, or other, more severe diseases.  It is interesting to see where medicine and its practices rooted from, and who was accredited with the starting of the different branches of medicine.  I think others are quite interested in this topic because they are interested in the possible home remedies people such as the Egyptians, Babylonians, or Persians from long ago used to cure their illnesses.  I think people will also gain a new found appreciation for how much safer and more sanitary our medical processes and tools allow us to be today, when compared to those of people from different eras.

The different episodes I am including in my web project include the following: Episode 1 on Egyptian Medicine, Episode 2 on Greek and Roman (Hellenistic) Medicine, and Episode 3 on Medieval Medicine during the Middle Ages.  I am quite interested in medicine of the Egyptians because I feel they had the strongest influence on the founding of medicine.  The study of medicine during the time of the Greeks and Romans is interesting to me because it was a time period in which medicine probably had much influence from the Egyptians, and I think the people then would have had significant findings in medicine.  I think the study of medicine during the Medieval Period is fascinating because it shows how people from that period further developed the medicinal knowledge they gained from the Greeks and Romans.  It is also amazing to see what people from the outside they relied on for different theories, such as the Arabs.

My main idea for a writing style for my web project is to use the narrative approach.  Of course, most of the time, the narrator for each different episode is the reader them self.  The underlying theme or "thread" tying all the episodes together is modern medicine and how it developed or advanced amongst the three different episodes of my web project.  Without any further a due, I hope you enjoy!!