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Vilar-Rodríguez, M. & Pons-Pons, J. (2022). Friendly societies and sickness coverage in the absence of state provision in Spain (1870-1935). En P. Gray, J. Hall, R. Herndon and J. Silvestre, (eds.), Standard of living: essays in economics, history and religion in honor of John E. Murray, (pp. 97-118). Springer.
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[Abstract]: This paper stems from the book Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of
Industrial Sickness Funds, published by John Murray in 2007, which has served as a basic reference
point for our research work in recent years. In particular, this study aims to analyse the origin and
development of friendly societies in Spain prior to the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), taking their
key economic role, especially in the sickness scheme, as study perspective. In this analysis, it can be
seen how the initial pecuniary aid offered by friendly societies became a service of medical and
pharmaceutical provision that drove their development in the country’s more urban areas within a
context where state sickness insurance was lacking.