Prof. Dr. Dora Vargha

Die Forschung von Prof. Dr. Dora Vargha konzentriert sich auf die Medizingeschichte und Wissenschaftsgeschichte, insbesondere im Kontext des Kalten Krieges und sozialistischer Gesundheitssysteme. Sie analysiert transnationale Netzwerke, politische Ökonomie und soziale Transformationen anhand von Fallstudien wie der Poliomyelitis-Eradikation. Ihre Arbeit verbindet Archivforschung mit qualitativen Methoden und Diskursanalyse, um die Wechselwirkungen zwischen medizinischer Praxis, staatlicher Governance und globaler Gesundheit zu verstehen.

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• Socialist Medicine: An Alternative Global Health History (SOCMED)

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  Förderer: Horizon 2020: ERC Starting Grant Zeitraum: 09/2021 - 06/2027 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Dora Vargha

• Conclusion: Beyond Liberal Internationalism

  2016

  Contemporary European History · 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.

• Between East and West: Polio Vaccination across the Iron Curtain in Cold War Hungary

  2014

  Bulletin of the history of medicine · 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.