Prof. Dr. Dora Vargha
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Socialist Medicine: An Alternative Global Health History (SOCMED)
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Publikationen25
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Contemporary European History · 57 Zitationen · DOI
The contributors to this special issue have taken up the challenge of reconsidering some of the fundamental assumptions that have traditionally underpinned the history of internationalism. In doing so their articles (some more explicitly than others) have addressed two central questions: who were the internationalists and where was internationalism taking place? The answers to these questions seem deceptively simple. However, as the articles in this issue have demonstrated, agents of internationalism are as diverse in age, gender and social status as the fields in which they operate.
Bulletin of the history of medicine · 46 Zitationen · DOI
In 1950s Hungary, with an economy and infrastructure still devastated from World War II and facing further hardships, thousands of children became permanently disabled and many died in the severe polio epidemic that shook the globe. The relatively new communist regime invested significantly in solving the public health crisis, initially importing a vaccine from the West and later turning to the East for a new solution. Through the history of polio vaccination in Hungary, this article shows how Cold War politics shaped vaccine evaluation and implementation in the 1950s. On the one hand, the threat of polio created a safe place for hitherto unprecedented, open cooperation among governments and scientific communities on the two sides of the Iron Curtain. On the other hand, Cold War rhetoric influenced scientific evaluation of vaccines, choices of disease prevention, and ultimately the eradication of polio.
MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) · 26 Zitationen · DOI
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Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest · 21 Zitationen · DOI
Tandis que l’éradication mondiale de la poliomyélite est le plus souvent associée au « philanthrocapitalisme », le programme a ses racines dans l’Est de la guerre froide. Cet article déplace les débuts de l’éradication de la poliomyélite de trois décennies, et soutient que le vaccin s’est développé dans le cadre de l’internationalisme libéral et des réseaux internationaux socialistes. Fruit d’une collaboration entre Albert Sabin, virologistes soviétiques et d’Europe de l’Est et responsables de la santé publique, le vaccin à virus vivant utilisé aujourd’hui dans les programmes d’éradication de la poliomyélite a commencé son voyage mondial en Union soviétique, en Tchécoslovaquie, en Hongrie et à Cuba. L’article soutient que les idées et les pratiques de santé socialistes ont fourni un terrain fertile pour un programme d’élimination de la maladie qui reposait sur une combinaison de structures de santé primaires et d’initiatives descendantes. S’appuyant sur l’exemple du vaccin de Sabin, il analyse le rôle des systèmes politiques dans l’éradication de la maladie.
Manchester University Press eBooks · 11 Zitationen · DOI
Through the case of Czechoslovakia and Hungary, this chapter explores the role of Eastern European states in polio prevention and vaccine development in the Cold War. Based on published sources and archival research, the chapter demonstrates that polio facilitated cooperation between the antagonistic sides to prevent a disease that equally affected East and West. Moreover, it argues that Eastern Europe was seen – both by Eastern European states and the West - as different when it came to polio prevention, since the communist states were considered to be particularly well suited to test and successfully implement vaccines.
History and Technology · 7 Zitationen · DOI
From the establishment of the World Health Organization in 1948, the question of technical assistance was hotly debated by Eastern European countries. Recuperating from the war and undergoing radical political change, they were both recipients and donors of technical assistance in a newly forming system of international health. These countries had specific ideas about the obligations of states and the role of technical aid that did not necessarily map on the dominant, US-led interpretation. While there is a growing literature on technical assistance between Eastern Europe and the so-called Third World, the role of technology and expertise at the intersection of liberal and socialist international health has been little explored. Through the case of hospital-building projects and expert networks from a Hungarian perspective, this paper asks how we can understand socialist engagement in international health, and how technical assistance among the Second and Third worlds fitted into broader systems.
Bulletin of the history of medicine · 5 Zitationen · DOI
This essay reconsiders epidemic narratives through the lens of polio to examine temporal shifts and overlapping and conflicting temporalities and assess some of the stakes in how we conceptualize the epidemic dramaturgy. I argue that while the dramaturgy of epidemics serves as a thread around which people, state actors, and institutions organize experiences, responses, and expectations, consideration of the multiplicity of epidemic temporalities is crucial in understanding how medical practice and knowledge are shaped and transferred, particularly with attention to actors that might be rendered invisible by the conventional narrative arc.
The Lancet · 5 Zitationen · DOI
Isis · 4 Zitationen · DOI
Vaccines and vaccination are richly explored areas of study within the history of science and medicine, connecting related fields of the history of science and technology, and spanning across subfields such as biomedical sciences, animal studies, colonial and postcolonial history, and the history of global health. Vaccination is a thoroughly political act that is at once an intimate and local issue and a transnational one, with its particular set of politics connecting stakes for the individual and the community. Vaccination also maps on narratives and temporal frameworks of disease with an ultimate goal of ending epidemics. Therefore, the essay takes these three analytical entry points to discuss the historiography of vaccination: the geographical, the political, and the temporal. We argue that through these lenses we can gain a more nuanced understanding of historical narratives we privilege, and in return, this understanding can enable us to explore past and current questions of health inequalities, validation practices, power relations and resistance and vaccine diplomacy.
History Compass · 4 Zitationen · DOI
Abstract This essay provides an overview of recent histories of medicine and global health from a socialist perspective, and maps out possible new directions of research. It focuses on key themes in the history of medicine in Eastern Europe, its global connections and Latin American, East Asian and African contexts. Through a discussion of international professional and diplomatic networks, health systems, medical technologies and aid and technical assistance, the essay argues that integrating missing actors, ideas and practices is crucial for a complete understanding of global health history.
Social History of Medicine · 4 Zitationen · DOI
Based on oral history interviews, medical literature, hospital newsletters, memoirs and news media, this article explores the ways in which ideals of socialism interacted with medical practice in polio care in 1950s Hungary. Through the everyday life of polio hospitals, it argues that the specific care that polio demanded from hospital staff, parents and children, resonated with state socialist political discourses of gender equality and the breakdown of class barriers and conventional hierarchies in medicine. Providing opportunities, as much as failing to fulfil expectations of patients, parents and medical staff, polio care simultaneously created socialist utopias and demonstrated the limits of political ideals.
Manchester University Press eBooks · 3 Zitationen · DOI
Through the case of Czechoslovakia and Hungary, this chapter explores the role of Eastern European states in polio prevention and vaccine development in the Cold War. Based on published sources and archival research, the chapter demonstrates that polio facilitated cooperation between the antagonistic sides to prevent a disease that equally affected East and West. Moreover, it argues that Eastern Europe was seen – both by Eastern European states and the West - as different when it came to polio prevention, since the communist states were considered to be particularly well suited to test and successfully implement vaccines.
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Women s History Review · 2 Zitationen · DOI
"This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture." Women's History Review, 29(1), pp. 174–175
The American Historical Review · 1 Zitationen · DOI
Like many things pandemic, this forum has an appropriately complicated history. In late January 2021, the contributors and I began an online conversation designed to draw out their varied spatial and temporal perspectives in an effort to deepen our understanding of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As we began the conversation, the United States had just recorded twenty-five million COVID-19 cases. More than 414,000 deaths in the U.S. were linked to the virus, a larger number than those Americans who died in World War II. At the same time, the World Health Organization was estimating ninety-five million cases worldwide, with the virus responsible for more than two million deaths. It was increasingly clear that we were in the middle of a global pandemic that was upending almost all dimensions of political, economic, social, and cultural life. At this writing, some eighteen months later, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused more than 6.8 million deaths, making it one of the most deadly pandemics in world history. According to many economists, it has also produced the most severe economic recession since the worldwide depression of the 1930s. The uneven impact of the pandemic in the United States and around the world is manifested in the higher rates of infection and mortality among marginalized populations and in the differential economic and social costs that reflect broader structural inequalities around race, ethnicity, and wealth. Readers of the AHR know all too well the impact the pandemic has had on research, teaching, and museum and public history work, from the travel restrictions and lockdowns that prevented archival and community based research, conference travel, and in-person audience engagement, to the challenges of remote teaching and the impact of the pandemic on students, the ubiquity of Zoom as a suddenly necessary pedagogical and professional tool, and the growing exhaustion of just keeping on.
The Vaccine
2021Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences · 1 Zitationen · DOI
Isis · 1 Zitationen · DOI
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Oxford University Press eBooks · 1 Zitationen · DOI
Abstract Concerns over children’s physical health and ability were shared experiences across post–World War II societies, and the figure of the child was often used as a tool to reach over the Iron Curtain. However, key differences in how children with polio were perceived, and as a result treated, followed Cold War fault lines. Concepts of an individual’s role in society shaped medical treatment and views of disability, which contributed to the celebrated polio child in one environment and her invisibility in another. Thus, through the lens of disability, new perspectives have emerged on the history of the Cold War, polio, and childhood.
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 1 Zitationen · DOI
Local Failure in a Global Success At first, it seemed that the unprecedented cooperation between emigrants, international organisations, the Catholic Church and the communist government of Hungary was fully successful. Medimpex, the state company that imported the vaccine in the summer of 1957, received an award for its efforts. 1 The following year there was no epidemic and the government celebrated the feat. 2 However, a new and severe outbreak in the summer of 1959, when almost 2,000 children fell prey to the disease, prompted the state and the medical profession to re-evaluate their success. How could such a severe epidemic happen when a high number of children were supposed to have been protected by the Salk vaccine? What went wrong? Who was to blame? Public health officials, parents, ministers and doctors tried to work out the reasons for what appeared to be a complete failure. They engaged in a conversation on effectiveness and prevention by using and producing medical data in various ways, clashing lay and medical experiences, and revealing a broad set of expectations.
Rutgers University Community Repository (Rutgers University) · 1 Zitationen · DOI
Iron Curtain, Iron Lungs uses the series of polio epidemics in communist Hungary to study a global public health emergency in the midst of an international political crisis: the Cold War. Based on extensive, thus far unexplored archival material, medical and popular literature, newspapers, audiovisual sources, memoirs and oral history interviews, the dissertation argues that due to the particularities of polio, unique spaces of cooperation opened between antagonistic sides while Cold War concepts simultaneously influenced policies and practices of disease prevention and treatment. Polio became an issue that reached over Cold War divisions, due to four attributes of the disease: the new phenomenon of epidemic polio in the 20th century; the importance of children as the main age group of the disease; the debilitating effects of the virus; and that polio was a global disease. The dissertation analyses the history of polio in Hungary at multiple registers. On an international level, it asks how Cold War divisions can be re-evaluated when viewed through the lens of a disease that disregarded borders and ideologies. On a national level, the dissertation investigates how post-war societies and nascent political systems dealt with an epidemic that worked against their modernist projects. On an individual level, it raises questions about definitions of treatment, authority of care and investigates the boundary between professional and lay knowledge. Iron Curtain, Iron Lungs presents a new approach both to Cold War history and to the history of medicine. The dissertation shifts attention from the two superpowers to an Eastern European state and by doing so, throws new light on Cold War interactions and the effect of international politics on personal experiences. The unique geopolitical situation of Hungary on the boundary of the Iron Curtain and the construction of a new communist regime makes the country the ideal ground to understand the influence of Cold War in forming global health responses to epidemic crises. With vaccine first arriving from the West, followed by a new serum from the East, the Hungarian story highlights issues of international politics, experimentation and standardization in epidemic prevention. Furthermore, a focus on Hungary allows linking the intimate world of families with national and international agendas through the care for disabled children with polio.
European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health · DOI
Although Kornai has been criticised by political economists like Christopher Davis for not including complex and non-conventional sectors such as the medical system in his analysis, Kornai's overall work, particularly his book Economics of Shortage was, and continues to be, hugely influential in understanding state-socialist planning economies, and has significantly shaped economic theories.2Indeed, the West perceived the socialist world through tropes of shortage: of basic necessities, consumer products, and provisions for health.Shortage became a cornerstone of Cold War rhetoric, contrasted with the abundance of the West's market economy and healthcare.Shortages were, of course, a reality that permeated everyday life, scientific research and medical practice in state-socialist countries, sometimes paired with planned or accidental abundance in expertise and medical goods.The rest of the world was not immune either: local and regional shortages were often nested in global scarcities, in which the interests of East and West would either align or clash.The Cold War politics of access to antibiotics and pharmaceutical technologies in the immediate postwar era, or the fluctuation between collaboration and competition when it came to respiratory devices and newly developed vaccines in global polio outbreaks point to the manifold ways in which real and perceived shortages and inequalities played out within and between countries.3Decolonising states with their contested status in the international health system, and facing grave material, administrative and personnel shortages, became promising targets for aid from both sides.Aid and development have always been at the heart of histories of global health, as its story weaves a narrative arc from philanthropic organizations such as the Rockefeller Foundation, through technical assistance programmes, postcolonial developmentalism and modernization projects, to philanthrocapitalism in the twentieth century.It is an incredibly rich history that has seen exciting turns in the recent years, such as Latin American challenges and enactments of developmentalist models.4If the socialist world
Cambridge University Press eBooks · DOI
Cambridge University Press eBooks · DOI
In December 1959, Hungary became one of the first countries in the world to begin nationwide mass vaccination with the Sabin polio vaccine. Though not often recognised as a player in the history of public health, this Eastern European state introduced the vaccine to its national immunisation programme four years before the United Statesthe country where the vaccine was developed. This campaign put Hungary at the frontline of polio vaccination along with the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, where the Sabin vaccine was tested. The Hungarian model of annual intensive mass vaccination campaigns became one of the bases on which the WHO built its global strategy of polio eradication in the late twentieth century. 1 The development and implementation of the live poliovirus vaccine in Hungary is in many ways an unusual Cold War story: one in which scientists all over the world, among them American and Soviet researchers, worked together and shared results that led to the immunisation of millions of children in national mass vaccination programmes. The scientific cooperation surrounding polio seems to have reached its climax in the development of the Sabin vaccine, revealing global cooperation that arched over conventional Cold War hostilities. Polio could clearly no longer be defined as 'an American story '. 2 In order to plan and execute prevention methods, develop vaccines and provide state-of-the-art treatment for a new epidemiological phenomenon, scientific communities needed to be constantly in touch with each other, share new experiences and knowledge and cooperate in figuring out the next step. 1
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