RT Journal Article
T1 From abandonment to hospitalisation: evolution of hospital care in rural Spain (1939–1975)
A1 Barceló-Prats, Josep
A1 Lanero Táboas, Daniel
K1 History of hospitals
K1 Modern hospital
K1 Healthcare
K1 Rural Spain
K1 Francoism
AB The aim of this article is to explain the situation of the Spanish hospital system during the twentieth century and to analyse the reasons why the difficulties that a significant part of the Spanish population, resident in rural areas, had to access hospital services during the Franco dictatorship were perpetuated. The first section uses a conceptual perspective to discuss the repercussions that the new medical significance of the hospital had for the notion of ‘rural hospital’. The second section examines the projects for hospital modernisation that appeared before the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) and highlights what impeded the consolidation of these pioneering experiences in the country. The following section analyses the hospital situation in Spain’s rural world as well as the profound changes that occurred during the last decades of the dictatorship, just on the threshold of the health reform that was finally implemented in the democratic period
PB Oxford University Press
SN 0951-631X
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/28891
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/28891
LA eng
NO Social History of Medicine, Volume 35, Issue 2, May 2022, Pages 661–681, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkab126
DS Minerva
RD 28 abr 2026