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Socialist Utopia in Practice: Everyday Life and Medical Authority in a Hungarian Polio Hospital (2018)

Vargha, Dora (Author)

Social History of Medicine
Volume: 31
Issue: 2
Pages: 373-391

DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkx064

URI: https://academic.oup.com/shm/article/31/2/373/4158229

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Hospitals and clinics Children Women in medicine Medicine and society Medicine and politics Socialism 20th century, late Hungary

Based on oral history interviews, medical literature, hospital newsletters, memoirs and news media, this article explores the ways in which ideals of socialism interacted with medical practice in polio care in 1950s Hungary. Through the everyday life of polio hospitals, it argues that the specific care that polio demanded from hospital staff, parents and children, resonated with state socialist political discourses of gender equality and the breakdown of class barriers and conventional hierarchies in medicine. Providing opportunities, as much as failing to fulfil expectations of patients, parents and medical staff, polio care simultaneously created socialist utopias and demonstrated the limits of political ideals.

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