Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-260) and index.
Introduction : History of the Birmingham Teaching Hospitals, 1779-1939 -- 1. Birmingham's First Voluntary Hospital -- 2. Optic and Orthopaedic Charities : Birmingham's First Specialist Hospitals -- 3. Birmingham School of Medicine and the First Provincial Teaching Hospital -- 4. Mid-Victorian Specialties : Hospitals for Women, Children and the Deaf -- 5. Importance of Good Teeth and Skin -- 6. Late Nineteenth-Century Reorganisation : The Associated Teaching Hospitals -- 7. Reconstruction Delayed : The Development of the Teaching Hospitals, 1900-1919 -- 8. University of Birmingham Medical School -- 9. Hospitals in the Interwar Period -- 10. Modernising Medical Education in the Midlands -- Appendix I : Hospital Locations -- Appendix II : Patient Numbers at the Hospitals, 1780-1939.