Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: The San Ramón Maternity Hospital

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

    Howard FischerUppsala, Sweden “We were Europe’s baby supermarket and babies were stolen for sixty years.”1— Inés Madrigal Twentieth-century Spain was a politically unstable, highly divided nation. In 1931, King Alfonso XIII abdicated after the results of elections were interpreted as a plebiscite on abolishing the monarchy.2 What followed was “one weak government after another.”3 In…