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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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-708582025-08-13T14:12:11Z Polio Across the Iron Curtain iron curtain polio; Hungary thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing 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. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2021-06-17T12:09:15Z 2018 book OCN: 1266401855 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49614 9781108355421 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/70858 eng Global Health Histories open access image/png image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/49614/1/polio2.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/49614/1/polio2.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/49614/1/polio2.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/49614/1/polio2.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/49614/1/polio2.pdf Cambridge University Press https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108355421 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108355421 12615a55-20f1-4eb5-a6c9-5eb6541f63e5 Wellcome Trust d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9781108355421 Wellcome 254 Cambridge open access |
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| title | Polio Across the Iron Curtain |
| title_full | Polio Across the Iron Curtain |
| title_fullStr | Polio Across the Iron Curtain |
| title_full_unstemmed | Polio Across the Iron Curtain |
| title_short | Polio Across the Iron Curtain |
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| topic | iron curtain polio; Hungary thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing |
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