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