Polio across the Iron Curtain: Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic
dc.contributor.author | Vargha, D | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-04T13:40:21Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-10-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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 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. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/9781108355421 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/36237 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/polio-across-the-iron-curtain/883EE15249730CF62FC95A52F555096C | en_GB |
dc.rights | © Dóra Vargha 2018 This work is in copyright. It is subject to statutory exceptions and to the provisions of relevant licensing agreements; with the exception of the Creative Commons version the link for which is provided below, no reproduction of any part of this work may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. An online version of this work is published at doi.org/10.1017/9781108355421 under a Creative Commons Open Access license CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 which permits re-use, distribution and reproduction in any medium for non-commercial purposes providing appropriate credit to the original work is given. You may not distribute derivative works without permission. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 All versions of this work may contain content reproduced under license from third parties. Permission to reproduce this third-party content must be obtained from these third-parties directly. | en_GB |
dc.subject | Cold War | en_GB |
dc.subject | History of medicine | en_GB |
dc.subject | Epidemics | en_GB |
dc.subject | Polio | en_GB |
dc.subject | Global Health | en_GB |
dc.subject | Disability | en_GB |
dc.subject | Vaccines | en_GB |
dc.subject | Hungary | en_GB |
dc.subject | Eastern Europe | en_GB |
dc.title | Polio across the Iron Curtain: Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic | en_GB |
dc.type | Book | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2019-03-04T13:40:21Z | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781108355421 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | Cambridge | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available from Cambridge University Press via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.relation.isPartOfSeries | Global Health Histories | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2018-10-01 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2018-10-01 | |
rioxxterms.type | Book | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2019-03-04T13:37:45Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2019-03-04T13:40:25Z |
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