Victorian Hospital

Lavinia Mitton is a lecturer in social policy at the University of Kent. She is a graduate of the University of Oxford, where she studied at Somerville College. She obtained an MSc at Wolfson College, Oxford, and specialised in the social history of medicine. She has worked as a researcher at the University of Cambridge, where she also tutored students in economic history. She authored this book while writing a doctoral thesis on the history of social policy at the London School of Economics.

• Introduction /Voluntary Hospitals /Hospitals and Medical Science /The Revolution in Nursing /Specialist and Cottage Hospitals /Poor Law Infirmaries /Hospitals for Infectious Diseases /Asylums /Convalescent Hospitals /Military and Naval Hospitals /Victorian Hospitals Today /Further Reading /Places to Visit /Index