Polio Across the Iron Curtain
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 immunisation camp...
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| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Cambridge University Press
2021
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| 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 immunisation 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 cooperation 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. Also available
as Open Access. |
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