Medicine and Conflict

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 ;Transfusio 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