El Estado como aliado. Los médicos y el proceso de estatalización de los servicios sanitarios en la segunda república española

Abstract

The attitudes of the medical collective in the face of the perspective of the state intervention in the organization and administration of the medical-sanitarium services, and the dependenc of these on the public central Power, have marked an important part of the public statements of professionals of the medicine during the XX^th century. In this paper we tried to analyze which were the expectations of the Spanish physicians concerning the intervention of the State in the defended by the physicians implied in the sanitary system. In order to reach the proposed objective they have been analyzed speeches of corporate organizations and of the professional press emitted during the period (1931-1936).