Physicians as a Public for the Popularization of Medicine in Interwar Catalonia: The "Monografies Mèdiques" Series

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The Medical Monographs collection Monografies Mèdiques (Monografies
\nhereafter), a series published in Barcelona between 1926 and 1937, provides the
\noptimum conditions for studying the relationship between science, in this case
\nmedicine, and its public within the context of Catalonia, which, in the intenvar
\nperiod, might be considered on the periphery of European science.
\nIn the first place, in its pages the creator and editor of the collection, the physician and politician Jaume Aiguader i Miró (1882-1943 ), explicitly articulated countless thoughts on the process of popularizing medicine in general, as well as his interest in winning over physicians as the primary target for the Monografies
\npopularization efforts. While we also find expressions of his interest in offering
\nMonografies to the 'educated public' (that is; non-physicÍans), our hypothesis is
\nthat Aiguader's contributions championing access to wider audiences - upheld, as
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