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...
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| פורמט: | אלקטרוני ספר אלקטרוני |
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| שפה: | אנגלית |
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Cambridge University Press
2018
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| סדרה: | Global Health Histories
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| גישה מקוונת: | Open access – download the full text (archived at NCDS Library) |
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| סיכום: | 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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| תיאור פיזי: | 1 online resource (254 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781108355421 |
| גישה: | Open access. |