Salud y desequilibrios en la centuria de las Luces: hospitales y médicos en Cádiz a través del Catastro de Ensenada

The Cadastre (Survey) of Ensenada, promulgated by Don Zenón de Somodevilla, I Marquis de la Ensenada, was much more than a census, and it revealed the diversity and complexity of health care in the Crown of Castile. The present study has three objectives: to examine the territorial distribution of these activities and the income of health professionals in what is now the province of Cadiz; to explore the value of information at different documentary levels of the Cadastre of Ensenada for this type of study; and, finally, to spatialize and analyze the complexity of the data using Geographic Information Systems (GIS).