Health and society at the beginning of the XXI century Félix Martí Ibáñez Memorial (1911–1972)

Series of conferences held during January and February 2004, at the Residence for Researchers CSIC-Generalitat de Catalunya.

“Francesc Salvà” Consolidat Researching Group, integrated by science, technology and medicine historians from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Consell Superior d’Investigacións Científiques, at the end of 2002, proposed to organise “Félix Martí Ibánez Memorial (1911-1972)”. The intention was that a series of activities programmed for 2003 and 2004 (conferences, exhibitions, doctorate courses, etc.) would go beyond a commemorative fact around the figure of this medical doctor, sexologist and anarchist; although it was widely agreed that the memory should be recuperated.
That is why it seemed to us that a good way for closing the Memorial acts would be to organise a series of conferences that would start covering the historical situation where Martí Ibánez was to develop his varied and complex medical, political and cultural activities up to a sort of critical and concerned view on our present and near future.
The result of that idea is this series of conferences under the title “Health and society at the beginning of the XXI Century”, to which several specialists in public health and on medicine history have been invited.

The Residence for Researchers welcomed this idea with enthusiasm and generosity and the efforts became real in January and February 2004. It also proposed to publish a book including the conferences and a brief biographical account on Martí Ibáñez and a bibliography addressed to those who could be interested in his works and the time that made his work possible.