Article ID: CBB378182924

Technical assistance and socialist international health: Hungary, the WHO and the Korean War (2020)

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Vargha, Dora (Author)


History and Technology
Volume: 36
Issue: 3-4
Pages: 400-417


Publication Date: 2020
Edition Details: Special Issue: Development Interventions: Science, Technology, and Technical Assistance
Language: English

From the establishment of the World Health Organization in 1948, the question of technical assistance was hotly debated by Eastern European countries. Recuperating from the war and undergoing radical political change, they were both recipients and donors of technical assistance in a newly forming system of international health. These countries had specific ideas about the obligations of states and the role of technical aid that did not necessarily map on the dominant, US-led interpretation. While there is a growing literature on technical assistance between Eastern Europe and the so-called Third World, the role of technology and expertise at the intersection of liberal and socialist international health has been little explored. Through the case of hospital-building projects and expert networks from a Hungarian perspective, this paper asks how we can understand socialist engagement in international health, and how technical assistance among the Second and Third worlds fitted into broader systems.

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Article Gisela Mateos; Edna Suárez-Díaz (2020) Development interventions: science, technology and technical assistance. History and Technology (pp. 293-309). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Mateos, Gisela
Suárez-Díaz, Edna
Carlo Gelmetti
Sánchez Sánchez, Esther M.
Miki Namba
Jin-hyouk Kim
Concepts
Technical assistance
Medicine
International cooperation
Hospitals
Nuclear power; atomic energy
Skin diseases
Time Periods
20th century
Early modern
Renaissance
20th century, late
19th century
17th century
Places
North Korea
Korea
Spain
Italy
France
China
Institutions
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
CENTO Nuclear Institute
World Health Organization (WHO)
United States. Army
Rockefeller Foundation
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