Historical perspective template

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Charmaine Patel, M.D. [2]

Introduction

• The page name should be "(Disease name) historical perspective", with only the first letter of the title capitalized.
• Goal: to provide the background on the history of how the disease/condition was discovered, and the developments in the study of the disease over time.
• As with all microchapter pages liking to the main page, at the top of the edit box put {{CMG}}, your name template, and the microchapter navigation template you created at the beginning.
• Remember to create links within Wikidoc by placing [[square brackets]] around key words which you want to link to other pages. For more information on how to create links click here.
• Remember this is not the page for patient history, or the natural history of the disease.
• Remember to follow the same format and capitalization of letters as outlined in the template below
• You should include the name of the disease in the first sentence of every subsection.

Overview

• This section should include the name of the disease in the first sentence, and give a brief description of the important aspects of the information that is relayed in the rest of the page.
• For an example of the overview section of the historical perspective page, click here.

Discovery

• This section should describe how the disease was initially discovered, when it was discovered, and who discovered it.
• You can also describe the impact of the discovery in this section.

Development of Treatment Strategies

• Include notable scientists who studied the condition.
• Include landmark changes in approaches to studying the disease.
• This is a good place to include pictures of treatments, such as the "iron lung" for polio. For more information on adding pictures, click here.

Impact on Cultural History

• Here you can include the impact the disease has had over time from a cultural aspect.
• Include pandemics, epidemics, outbreaks, and initial mortality.
• Include the impact of the disease on society, such as the devastation, the way the sick were treated, and the impacts of the treatments that were used at the time.

Famous Cases

• Include prominent cases of the condition in history (eg. Typhoid Mary).
• Include famous people who were afflicted by the condition.
• Include famous cases that defined the condition in history.

References

• References should be cited for the material that you have put on your page. Type in {{reflist|2}}. This will generate your references in small font, in two columns, with links to the original article and abstract.
• For information on how to add references into your page, click here.