Polio across the Iron Curtain : Hungary's Cold War with an epidemic / Dóra Vargha.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 254 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Online edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

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 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. This title is also available as Open Access.

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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Jun 2019).

Open Access title.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This work is made available as Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

ISBN:

9781108355421

1108355420

9781108368964

1108368964

9781108372749

1108372740

OCLC:

1078907866