Resumen de Jonathan Reinarz, Health Care in Birmingham, the Birmingham Teaching Hospitals 1779- 1929, The Boydell Press, 2009, 276 pp., ISB1 9781843835066 (hbk)
Historians have usually studied voluntary hospitals and medical charities as single institutions, and thus understanding of how they compared or interrelated with each other locally has been difficult. Jonathan Reinarz thus breaks new ground with this history of the various voluntary hospitals in Birmingham from the late eighteenth century to the outbreak of World War II, by comparing and bringing together their histories and placing them in their local, national and, sometimes, European context.
