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Polio Across the Iron Curtain: Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic
Contributor(s): Vargha, Dóra (Author)
ISBN: 1108420842     ISBN-13: 9781108420846
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $107.35  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: December 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Medical | History
- Medical | Neurology
Dewey: 616.835
LCCN: 2018026566
Series: Global Health Histories
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.25" W x 9.25" (1.25 lbs) 320 pages
 
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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. D ra 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.

Contributor Bio(s): Vargha, Dora: - 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.