Hungary was one of the first countries to introduce a national oral vaccination campaign against polio, built on years of scientific collaboration between East and West. Dora 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. This title is also available as Open Access.
Hungary was one of the first countries to introduce a national oral vaccination campaign against polio, built on years of scientific collaboration between East and West. Dora 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. This title is also available as Open Access.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1. The power of polio 2. Iron Curtain, iron lungs 3. Unlikely allies 4. Local failure in a global success 5. Sabin saves the day 6. After the end of polio Conclusion: Eastern Europe in global health history.
Introduction 1. The power of polio 2. Iron Curtain, iron lungs 3. Unlikely allies 4. Local failure in a global success 5. Sabin saves the day 6. After the end of polio Conclusion: Eastern Europe in global health history.
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