Table of Contents

Steve Sturdy Introduction: Medicine, Health and the Public Sphere Part I: Public-Private Interactions 1. Margaret Pelling Public and Private Dilemmas: the College of Physicians in Early Modern London 2. Pamela K. Gilbert Producing the Public: Public Medicine in Private Spaces 3. Andrew A. G. Morrice 'Should the Doctor Tell?' Medical Secrecy in Early Twentieth Century Britain Part II: Voluntary Institutions and the Public Sphere 4. Adrian Wilson The Birmingham General Hospital and its Public 1765-1779 5. Elaine Thomson Between Separate Spheres: Medical Women, Moral Hygiene and the Edinburgh Hospital for Women and Children 6. Martin Gorsky, John Mohan and Martin Powell British Voluntary Hospitals and the Public Sphere: Contribution and Participation Before the National Health Service 7. David Cantor Representing 'the Public': Medicine, Charity and Emotion in Twentieth-Century Britain Part III: The State and the Public Sphere 8. Deborah Brunton Policy, Powers and Practice: the Public Response to Public Health in the Scottish City 9. Christopher Hamlin Public Sphere to Public Health: the Transformation of 'Nuisance' 10. Logie Barrow In the Beginning was the Lymph; the Hollowing of Stational Vaccination in England and Wales, 1840-98 11. Bill Luckin The Shaping of a Public Environmental Sphere in Late Nineteenth-Century London 12. Steve Sturdy Alternative Publics: the Development of Government Policy on Personal Health Care 1905-1911 13. Naomi Pfeffer Fertility Counts: from Equity to Outcome

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Steve Sturdy