Contents

pp v-v

List of Illustrations

pp vi-vii

Dedication

pp viii-viii

Foreword

pp ix-ix

Acknowledgements

pp x-xii

List of Abbreviations

pp xii-xii

Introduction - A History of the Birmingham Teaching Hospitals, 1779-1939

pp 1-8

Part I - The Emergence of the Voluntary Hospitals 1779–1900

pp 9-10

Chapter 1 - Birmingham’s First Voluntary Hospital

pp 11-29

Chapter 2 - Optic and Orthopaedic Charities: Birmingham’s First Specialist Hospitals

pp 30-45

Chapter 3 - Birmingham’s School of Medicine and the First Provincial Teaching Hospital

pp 46-66

Chapter 4 - Mid-Victorian Specialties: Hospitals for Women, Children and the Deaf

pp 67-92

Chapter 5 - The Importance of Good Teeth and Skin

pp 93-111

Chapter 6 - Late Nineteenth-Century Reorganisation: The Associated Teaching Hospitals

pp 112-130

Part II - The Teaching Hospitals in the Twentieth Century 1900–1939

pp 131-132

Chapter 7 - Reconstruction Delayed: The Development of the Teaching Hospitals, 1900–1919

pp 133-158

Chapter 8 - The University of Birmingham Medical School

pp 159-183

Chapter 9 - The Hospitals in the Interwar Years

pp 184-215

Chapter 10 - Modernising Medical Education in the Midlands

pp 216-239

Conclusion

pp 240-247

Appendix I - Hospital Locations

pp 248-249

Appendix II - Patient Numbers at the Hospitals, 1780–1939

pp 250-250

Bibliography

pp 251-260

Index

pp 261-276