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Polio Across the Iron Curtain
Author | : Dóra Vargha |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2018-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108420846 |
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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.
Polio Across the Iron Curtain
Author | : Dóra Vargha |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2021-01-28 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1108431011 |
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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 immunization 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 corporation 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. This title is also available as Open Access.
Paralysed with Fear
Author | : Gareth Williams |
Publsiher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349452920 |
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The story of mankind's struggle against polio is compelling, exciting and full of twists and pardoxes. One of the grand challenges of modern medicine, it was a battleground between good and bad science. Gareth Williams takes an original view of the journey to understanding and defeating polio.
Landscapes of Disease
Author | : Katerina Gardikas |
Publsiher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2018-03-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9786155211980 |
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Malaria has existed in Greece since prehistoric times. Its prevalence fluctuated depending on climatic, socioeconomic and political changes. The book focuses on the factors that contributed to the spreading of the disease in the years between independent statehood in 1830 and the elimination of malaria in the 1970s. By the nineteenth century, Greece was the most malarious country in Europe and the one most heavily infected with its lethal form, falciparum malaria. Owing to pressures on the environment from economic development, agrarian colonization and heightened mobility, the situation became so serious that malaria became a routine part of everyday life for practically all Greek families, further exacerbated by wars. The country’s highly fragmented geography and its variable rainfall distribution created an environment that was ideal for sustaining and spreading of diseases, which, in turn, affected the tolerance of the population to malaria. In their struggle with physical suffering and death, the Greeks developed a culture of avid quinine consumption and were likewise eager to embrace the DDT spraying campaign of the immediate post WW II years, which, overall, had a positive demographic effect.
The Cutter Incident
Author | : Paul A. Offit |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2007-09-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300126050 |
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Vaccines have saved more lives than any other single medical advance. Yet today only four companies make vaccines, and there is a growing crisis in vaccine availability. Why has this happened? This remarkable book recounts for the first time a devastating episode in 1955 at Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, thathas led many pharmaceutical companies to abandon vaccine manufacture. Drawing on interviews with public health officials, pharmaceutical company executives, attorneys, Cutter employees, and victims of the vaccine, as well as on previously unavailable archives, Dr. Paul Offit offers a full account of the Cutter disaster. He describes the nation's relief when the polio vaccine was developed by Jonas Salk in 1955, the production of the vaccine at industrial facilities such as the one operated by Cutter, and the tragedy that occurred when 200,000 people were inadvertently injected with live virulent polio virus: 70,000 became ill, 200 were permanently paralyzed, and 10 died. Dr. Offit also explores how, as a consequence of the tragedy, one jury's verdict set in motion events that eventually suppressed the production of vaccines already licensed and deterred the development of new vaccines that hold the promise of preventing other fatal diseases.
Polio
Author | : Thomas Abraham |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2018-06-29 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9781787380875 |
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In 1988, the World Health Organization launched a twelve-year campaign to wipe out polio. Thirty years and several billion dollars over budget later, the campaign grinds on, vaccinating millions of children and hoping that each new year might see an end to the disease. But success remains elusive, against a surprisingly resilient virus, an unexpectedly weak vaccine and the vagaries of global politics, meeting with indifference from governments and populations alike. How did an innocuous campaign to rid the world of a crippling disease become a hostage of geopolitics? Why do parents refuse to vaccinate their children against polio? And why have poorly paid door-to-door healthworkers been assassinated? Thomas Abraham reports on the ground in search of answers.
Soviet Internationalism after Stalin
Author | : Tobias Rupprecht |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2015-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107102880 |
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The first multi-archive-based study of Soviet relations with Latin America from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Cold War Germany the Third World and the Global Humanitarian Regime
Author | : Young-sun Hong |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2015-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107095571 |
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This book examines global humanitarian efforts involving the two German states and Third World liberation movements during the Cold War.