Los médicos errantes

The Spanish civil war and China's war against Japan transcended its borders. For a large part of world public opinion, they were the advance guard of the great contemporary ideological and military conflicts. Some international volunteers decided to get directly involved and share on the ground the fate of those lands hitherto on the margins of the global chessboard. Among them, few had the relevance of the international team of doctors who, first integrated into the International Brigades favorable to the Spanish Republic and later as collaborators of the Chinese Red Cross, stood out for the continuity of their ideological commitment and their personal sacrifice, for the relevance of their medical knowledge, for its individual and collective significance, and for the indelible mark of those experiences in their lives. The researcher Carles Brasó Broggi recovers with unpublished documentation from archives around the world, the history of these wandering doctors, both during their time in both wars, and their previous and subsequent trajectories, closely linked to internationalist movements, to the communist influence , to World War II and the subsequent Cold War.