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Medicine and conflict: The Spanish Civil War and its traumatic legacy.

Publication Details

London: Routledge, 2018 CE.

Concerns the evolution of medical and surgical care of the wounded during the Spanish Civil War. "Importantly, the focus is from a mainly Spanish perspective – as the Spanish are given a voice in their own story, which has not always been the case. Central to the book is General Franco’s treatment of Muslim combatants, the anarchist contribution to health, and the medicalisation of propaganda – themes that come together in a medico-cultural study of the Spanish Civil War. Suffusing the narrative and the analysis is the traumatic legacy of conflict, an untreated wound that a new generation of Spaniards are struggling to heal." (publisher)

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Entry Number#12560
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/14799
External URLmedicine-and-conflict-the-spanish-civil-war

Geographic Context

Publication place: London