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[EN] Epidemics have been a well-established topic in medical history for a long time. However, during the last decades, they have been especially used as a means for bringing to light existing conflicts and tensions within particular societies (socio-economic inequalities, political clashes, cultural differences) or between them (international tensions, colonialism). In this sense, our book chapter attempts to briefly analyze how the epidemiological course followed by "exotic" epidemics (cholera, yellow fever, bubonic plague) in Spain and its overseas possessions (we will focus exclusively on Cuba and Morocco) between 1833 and 1930 can be used to show the increasingly problematic "imperial dimension" of the main Spanish sanitary branch of that period: the quarantine administration (known as "sanidad marítima" or "sanidad exterior"). We therefore propose that the Spanish health administration displayed a specific imperial model in the 19th and early 20th centuries, different from but still comparable with those of other European empires.
[ES] Desde hace décadas, las epidemias han constituido un recurso clásico del que la investigación histórica se ha valido para poner de manifiesto problemáticas existentes dentro de una sociedad (desigualdades socioeconómicas, tensiones políticas y territoriales, diferencias culturales) o entre un conjunto de sociedades (tensiones internacionales, colonialismo). En el presente trabajo, nuestro objetivo es analizar cómo el curso seguido por las epidemias ―exóticas‖ del periodo 1830-1930 (cólera, fiebre amarilla, peste bubónica) en España y en sus posesiones ultramarinas y africanas permite explorar la dimensión imperial de la principal rama de la sanidad civil española: la sanidad marítima o exterior. Una dimensión imperial cuya problemática realidad – que fue acentuándose entre el reinado isabelino y la fase final de la Restauración – se tradujo en una singular afectación epidémica de los diversos territorios peninsulares y extra-peninsulares (analizaremos solo los más importantes, Cuba y Marruecos).
Programa "Juan de la Cierva" del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Ref: JCI-2007-123-287 Proyecto de investigación del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Ref: HAR2009-13389-c03-02
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Sanidad Exterior, Siglos XIX-XX, epidemias, Imperio español, Historia
Sanidad Exterior, Siglos XIX-XX, epidemias, Imperio español, Historia
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