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HISTAGRA Seminar: Midwives in rural Spain in the 20th century: an internal political and professional exile

HISTAGRA Seminar: Midwives in rural Spain in the 20th century: an internal political and professional exile  On Thursday 12 December, the HISTAGRA Group, in collaboration with CISPAC, is organising a new session of the HISTAGRA 2024-2025 Seminars. On this occasion we will be visited by María Dolores Ruiz Berdún, lecturer at the University of Alcalá, who will present the paper: Las matronas de la España rural del siglo XX: un exilio interior político y profesional (Midwives in rural Spain in the 20th century: an internal political and professional exile). Dolores Ruiz graduated in Nursing in 1987, belonging to the first promotion of midwives of the Residence System. She received her PhD in History of Science in 2012 with the thesis ‘Historical development of a profession: mid...