Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Francisco Franco

  • A tangled web: stealing newborns in twentieth-century Spain

    Howard Fischer Uppsala, Sweden   Newborn infant. Photo by United States Children’s Bureau, 1940s. National Library of Medicine Images from the History of Medicine. The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. “We were Europe’s baby supermarket and babies were stolen for sixty years.”1 — Inés Madrigal   Twentieth-century…