Polio Across the Iron Curtain: Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic

ISBN-13: 9781108431019 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 266 str.

Dóra Vargha

Opis

Through the lens of polio, Dóra Vargha looks anew at international health, communism and Cold War politics. This title is also available as Open Access.

Recenzje

Advance praise: 'Polio Across the Iron Curtain is a superb study of the significance of disability for state and nation. Vargha's excellent history of Cold War medicine, technology, and public health reveals interstitial sites of cooperation and exchange in the shadow of the superpowers, thereby offering an important rethinking of the history of global health.' Julie Livingston, New York University

Spis treści

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.