Medicine and conflict: the Spanish Civil War and its traumatic legacy

"This book focuses on an important but neglected aspect of the Spanish Civil War, the evolution of medical and surgical care of the wounded during the conflict. Importantly, the focus is from a mainly Spanish perspective - as the Spanish are given a voice in their own story which has not always...

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Main Author: Browne, Sebastian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group 2019
Series:Routledge/Cañada Blanch studies on contemporary Spain
Routledge/Cañada Blanch studies on contemporary Spain 23
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:"This book focuses on an important but neglected aspect of the Spanish Civil War, the evolution of medical and surgical care of the wounded during the conflict. 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 which 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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 240 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9781351186513
1351186515