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Polio across the Iron Curtain : Hungary's Cold War with an epidemic /
- Title
- Polio across the Iron Curtain : Hungary's Cold War with an epidemic / Dóra Vargha (University of Exeter).
- Author
- Vargha, Dóra, 1979-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xi, 254 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Global health histories
- Uniform Title
- Global health histories (Series)
- Alternative Title
- Hungary's Cold War with an epidemic
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-248) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion: Eastern Europe in global health history.
- ISBN
- 9781108420846
- 1108420842
- 9781108431019
- 1108431011
- LCCN
- 2018026566
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library