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Polio across the Iron Curtain : Hungary's Cold War with an epidemic / Dóra Vargha.
LIBRA RC181.H9 V37 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vargha, Dóra, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Global health histories (Series)
- Global health histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poliomyelitis--Hungary--History.
- Poliomyelitis.
- Poliomyelitis vaccine, Oral--History.
- Poliomyelitis vaccine, Oral.
- World health--History--20th century.
- World health.
- History.
- Hungary.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 254 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The power of polio
- Iron Curtain, iron lungs
- Unlikely allies
- Local failure in a global success
- Sabin saves the day
- After the end of polio.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781108420846
- 1108420842
- 9781108431019
- 1108431011
- OCLC:
- 1036748487
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