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Health Care in Birmingham - The Birmingham Teaching Hospitals, 1779-1939 (Hardcover, New)
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Health Care in Birmingham - The Birmingham Teaching Hospitals, 1779-1939 (Hardcover, New)
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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. In the middle of
the eighteenth century, hospitals were unfamiliar institutions to
the inhabitants of most English towns and cities. As early as the
late nineteenth century, however, hospitals had become central to
both the provision of health care and medical education in most
large urban population centres. Drawing on hospital records, the
publications of associated medical staff and a wealth of other
local documents, Health Care in Birmingham carefully maps the
evolution of nine voluntary hospitals, and their associated medical
specialities in Birmingham, England over the century and a half
before the introduction of the National Health Service, a period
that witnessed significant social, economic and cultural change.
From the emergence of the town's first General Hospital in 1779,
the wealth of this key industrial centre in particular encouraged
the development of a full range of medical institutions, including
those established to treat afflictions of the bones and joints,
eye, ear, teeth and skin, as well as ailments peculiar to women and
children. Besides charting the local development of a wide range of
specialist fields, Health Care in Birmingham firmly situates each
hospital in its local and national contexts. Though greatly
reorganised on the eve of the Second World War, these institutions
influenced considerably the history and landscape of the city, and
continue to do so today. This is the first time their history has
been considered collectively in a single volume. Jonathan Reinarz
is Director of the Centre for the History of Medicine at the
University of Birmingham.
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