Professional Responsibility and the Welfare System in Spain at the Turn of the 19th Century

Abstract

his presentation forms part of a wider study on attitudes of physicians prior to the establishment of a social welfare system in Spain. The research is based on professional sources from the decade immediately prior to, and that immediately following, 1900. More specifically, the sources consist mainly of medical publications of the recently founded Medical Professional Associations, written by ‘experts’ who considered themselves spokespersons for the medical class.