Foreword Preface Conception, birth, and infancy 1 Constitutions and confrontations 26 Expansion and evolution 46 The Victorian BMA: what did it do?: Professing medicine 69 The Victorian BMA: what did it do?: State medicine. Medicine and the state 105 Upheavals 133 Welfare and war 168 Interwar 193 Reprise 220 A national health service 248 Home and away 270 A sea of troubles 304 The ferment in general practice, 1948-66 325 Index 359.