PUBLIC HEALTH AND EMPIRE IN ISABELLIN SPAIN (1833-68) Public health and empire in Isabellin Spain (1833-68): the MARTÍNEZ ANTONIO, F. J.: Public health case of military and empire in Isabellin Spain (1833-68): the * case of military health. health História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos, v. 13, n. 2, p. 139-73, Apr.-June 2006. The article analyzes the relations between public health and empire in Spain under the reign of Isabel II (1833-68). After presenting certain conceptual notions, the case of military health is proposed as a specific example of these relations. On a journey through the Empire’s different settings (the Iberian peninsula, Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines), the text explains the role played by different groups, often marginalized from historical accounts. KEYWORDS: history; public health; Spanish empire; nineteenth century; military health. Francisco Javier Martínez Antonio Laboratoire REHSEIS Paris San Antonio María Claret 27 1º C 50005 Zaragoza España
[email protected] v. 13, n. 2, p. 139-73, Apr.-June 2006v. 13, n. 2, p. 139-73, Apr.-June 2006 139 FRANCISCO JAVIER MARTÍNEZ ANTONIO Introduction. Searching for the empire * This work has been his paper follows a line of historical studies on “medicine carried out thanks to a and empire” which started in the mid 1990’s. This line conti- pos-doctorate T scholarship within the nues the path of previously existing fields such as “colonial project of the Spanish medicine”, “medicine and imperialism” or “post-colonial studies Ministry of Education and Science on medicine” which, during the last decades, have provided an (Reference EX2005- abundant historiographical production, rich in different and 060.).