PART I Introduction; 1 Introduction; Part II Narrative; 2 Disease in modern Britain; Death and disease; The epidemiological transition; Measuring morbidity; Why did patterns of disease change?; 3 Medical ideas; The emergence of hospital medicine; Laboratory medicine; Laboratory and clinic; Beyond the biological; Heterodox medicine; 4 Medical practices; The Pursuit of health; Domestic medicine; Medical practitioners; Consuming medicine; 5 Medical care in institutions; Voluntary hospitals and dispensaries

Poor Law hospitalsFever hospitals and tuberculosis sanatoria; Hospitals and dispensaries in Ireland; Asylums; 6 Medical practitioners; Making a medical living; Excluding competitors; Nursing; 7 Health and the state; Sanitary reform; Public health; Welfare; Government medical care; PART III Assessment; 8 Medicine in modern Britain: change, continuity, variation; PART IV Documents; 1 Description of fevers; 2 Victims of cholera; 3 The Spanish Flu; 4 The increase in cancer; 5 Variations in mortality; 6 The health of working class women; 7 The action of fever; 8 Pathological changes in the lung

9 The technical language of medicine10 The physiology of the kidney; 11 The benefits of physiological research; 12 A holistic view of the body; 13 The benefits of exercise; 14 Health and sunlight; 15 Domestic remedies; 16 Patent medicines; 17 Hydropathic treatment; 18 Treatment of heart disease; 19 The experience of surgery; 20 An appeal for funds; 21 Rules from Huddersfield Infirmary; 22 Hospital design; 23 The patient's experience; 24 Asylum design; 25 Medical training in London; 26 Setting up in practice; 27 Unity in the profession; 28 Opposition to the Colleges

29 Opposition to homeopaths30 Opposition to women doctors; 31 Nurse training; 32 Insanitary conditions in cities; 33 Public health in central and local government; 34 Health education; 35 The work of the Medical Officer of Health; 36 The cause of infant mortality; 37 The new National Health Service; References; Glossary; Further reading; Index