Sebastian Browne

Medicine and Conflict

The Spanish Civil War and its Traumatic Legacy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780367587642
• ISBN-10: 0367587645
• Artikelnr.: 69895098

Autorenporträt

Sebastian Browne is Associate Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church, Kent and holds a PhD from the University of Kent.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of images
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Prologue
Chapter 1: Introduction
Anatomy of a conflict: Concepts and methodologies
Historiography and the history of medicine of the Spanish Civil War
Local and regional histories of medicine
Chapter 2: Military conflict and medical care of the Moroccan wounded 1909-1939
Introduction
The roots of a conflict: Regulares and the Army of Africa
The Spanish Protectorate of Morocco: The birth of a military elite
Professionalising the troops
Surgical care of the wounded: North African amputees
Medical admissions in Salamanca and Zaragoza
Religion and culture
Mosques, 'cantinas', courtesans and kif
Care of the dead
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Organisation
Introduction
Civilian and military health during the Second Republic
Ideologies of care: New directions
Medical services at the start of the conflict
Local and regional responses
Pharmaceutical provision - manufacture and supply: A case study
The role of insurgent women in pharmacy: Gendered propaganda
Frontline medical services
Building on the experiences of the First World War
Evidence for the evolution of the Three Point Forward System
Preparing for chemical warfare: Realities and propaganda
Republican civic defence measures
Insurgent civic defence measures
Evacuation of the wounded
Ambulances
Hospital trains
Hospital ships
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Blood propaganda
Introduction
The historiography of blood transfusion and the Spanish Civil War
The origins of modern blood transfusion
The symbolic power of blood
The role of film
Heart of Spain
Transfusió de Sang
Defenders of the faith
The image and the word
Medical journals and propaganda
Conclusion
Chapter 5: The end of the Spanish Civil War and the trauma of post-war Francoism
Introduction
The Spanish Civil War 1936 -: An ongoing conflict?
Trauma and its legacy
The unequal trauma of defeat
Gloriously mutilated: Christ the amputee
The beginning of exile: Conflicts in motion
The Catalan Campaign
The bombing of Catalunya: lessons learned?
Hospitals in retreat: A case-study
Evacuating the wounded
Trauma imposed: Repression and incarceration
Catalunya occupied: The persecution of nurses
Hospital penitentiaries
Across the Pyrenees
Care in France and in the French internment camps
Infants imprisoned: The Prison for Nursing Mothers in Madrid
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Conclusion
End Notes
Bibliography