Book ID: CBB820799463

Polio Across the Iron Curtain: Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic (2018)

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Vargha, Dora (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 320
Language: English

By the end of the 1950s, Hungary became an unlikely leader in what we now call global health. Only three years after Soviet tanks crushed the revolution of 1956, Hungary became one of the first countries to introduce the Sabin vaccine into its national vaccination programme. This immunization campaign was built on years of scientific collaboration between East and West, in which scientists, specimens, vaccines and iron lungs crossed over the Iron Curtain. Dóra Vargha uses a series of polio epidemics in communist Hungary to understand the response to a global public health emergency in the midst of the Cold War. She argues that despite the antagonistic international atmosphere of the 1950s, spaces of transnational corporation between blocs emerged to tackle a common health crisis. At the same time, she shows that epidemic concepts and policies were influenced by the very Cold War rhetoric that medical and political cooperation transcended. This title is also available as Open Access.

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Authors & Contributors
Vargha, Dora
Porras, María Isabel
Ballester, Rosa
Gaudillière, Jean-Paul
Beaudevin, Claire
Whiteside, Alan
Concepts
Public health
Epidemics
Poliomyelitis
Global health
Medicine and society
Disease and diseases
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
South Africa
Hungary
Europe
Myanmar (Burma)
Montreal (Quebec, Canada)
Peru
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
European Association against Poliomyelitis
Harvard School of Public Health
United Nations
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