Cuidados en la Cataluña rural de postguerra. José Quílez, practicante de Almenar

This paper aims to present the testimony of the midwife and practitioner José Quílez, who developed his professional practice in Almenar (small town in the province of Lleida), in order to show how the professional provision of care in rural postwar Catalonia was developed by this civil servant of the local administration. A qualitative study of historical research is developed using the biographical interview as a resource, framed in the phenomenological paradigm, using direct oral sources that have been triangulated with the interviewee's own written sources, bibliographic sources, as well as documentation from the archives of the Official College of Nurses of Lleida. The testimony highlights a noble character forged by the miseries of postwar Spain, which led to his emigration for work reasons from Aragon to Catalonia, where he had the opportunity to develop a solid family project, as well as a strong professional commitment in the provision of care, which is manifested in the rigor in the application of the protocols of the time, as well as the basic principles of ethics and privacy with which he attended to patients

Art · Humanities · Political science · Historical and socio-economic studies of Spain and related regions · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies

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  Open Access•Doris Fuster Guillén•Propósitos y Representaciones•2019

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