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
Suárez-Díaz, Edna
Mateos, Gisela
Báguena Cervellera, María José
Ballester, Rosa
DiMoia, John P.
Hamblin, Jacob Darwin
Journals
History and Technology
Korean Journal of Medical History
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology
Cold War History
Dynamis: Acta Hispanica ad Medicinae Scientiarumque Historiam Illustrandam
Publishers
GeoPlaneta (publisher)
Concepts
Technical assistance
Medicine
Hospitals and clinics
International cooperation
Cold War
Medicine and the military; medicine in war
People
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich
Khankhoje, Pandurang Sadhashiv
Karikó, Katalin
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
20th century, early
21st century
Places
Hungary
North Korea
United States
Korea
Mexico
China
Institutions
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
World Health Organization (WHO)
Cornell University
Rockefeller Foundation
CENTO Nuclear Institute
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