出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：Spain joined the World Health Organization in 1952, at the time of General José Alberto Palanca as head of the Spanish health administration, which lasted until 1957. Under his office several collaborative projects were started. Using as main source material from the Archives of WHO, I study how such relationships were performed and developed. Notwithstanding the fact that the WHO partnership was sought by the Spanish government as a political strategy, evidence suggests that collaboration with the WHO was a convenient step to get Spain into the international scientific medical network of production and exchange of knowledge, tools and practices, even though in the first six years this had little effects on the Spanish society.
