Polio Across the Iron Curtain
Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2018
Summary
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 ep…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781108420846 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1108420842 |
| Author: | Dóra Vargha |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2018 |
| Weight: | 570g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 158mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Global Health Histories |
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Advance praise: ‘Vargha makes a major contribution to historical studies on medicine and the Cold War by examining the fascinating interaction between new local, national and global actors. Her sound interpretations go beyond Hungary and Eastern Europe and illuminate how authority is constructed and contested in the relationship between patients and physicians and the key role of disease control programs in national modernization projects.’ Marcos Cueto, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro
Advance praise: ‘Polio Across the Iron Curtain is a superb study of the significance of disability for state and nation. Vargha’s excellent history of Cold War medicine, technology, and public health reveals interstitial sites of cooperation and exchange in the shadow of the superpowers, thereby offering an important rethinking of the history of global health.’ Julie Livingston, New York University
About The Author
Dóra Vargha
Dóra Vargha is Lecturer in Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter. Her research has been awarded the J. Worth Estes Prize by the American Association for the History of Medicine, and the Young Scholar Book Prize by the International Committee for the History of Technology.
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