A history of the wide range of general and specialist hospitals associated with the University of Birmingham Medical School, set in the broader context of health care in Birmingham.

Introduction
Birmingham's First Voluntary Hospital
Optic and Orthopaedic Charities: Birmingham's First Specialist Hospitals
Birmingham's School of Medicine and the First Provincial Teaching Hospital
Mid-Victorian Specialities: Hospitals for Women, Children and the Deaf
The Importance of Good Teeth and Skin
Late Nineteenth-Century Reorganisation: The Associated Teaching Hospitals
Reconstruction Delayed: The Development of the Teaching Hospitals, 1900-1939
The University of Birmingham Medical School
The Hospitals in the Interwar Years
Modernising Medical Education in the Midlands
Conclusion