Relevance of Women in the Nationalist Faction of the Spanish Civil War: the Nurses

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the role developed by the nationalist nurses as health professionals on the warlike conflict in 1936-1939. On this context we can identify the type of training that nurses recived while the Civil War, the assigments and obligations relationed with theirs assistance works, their professional worries, the risk that this work envolves and the recognition of this. Their active participation transformed the essential sanitary perso-nal, doing an important place on this, with big relevance and low studies.

Keywords

• mujer
• enfermera
• guerra civil
• sanidad militar
• asistencia sanitaria