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Reconsidering the Dramaturgy by Vargha, Dóra

“…This essay reconsiders epidemic narratives through the lens of polio to examine temporal shifts and overlapping and conflicting temporalities and assess some…”
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Missing pieces: Integrating the socialist world in global health history by Vargha, Dora

“…This essay provides an overview of recent histories of medicine and global health from a socialist perspective, and maps out possible new directions of…”
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Technical assistance and socialist international health: Hungary, the WHO and the Korean War by Vargha, Dora

“…From the establishment of the World Health Organization in 1948, the question of technical assistance was hotly debated by Eastern European countries…”
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Socialist Utopia in Practice: Everyday Life and Medical Authority in a Hungarian Polio Hospital by Vargha, Dora

“…Summary Based on oral history interviews, medical literature, hospital newsletters, memoirs and news media, this article explores the ways in which ideals of…”
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Randall M. Packard. A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples . xii + 414 pp., figs., tables, index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. $35 (cloth) by Vargha, Dora

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Between East and West: Polio Vaccination across the Iron Curtain in Cold War Hungary by VARGHA, DORA

“…In 1950s Hungary, with an economy and infrastructure still devastated from World War II and facing further hardships, thousands of children became permanently…”
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Stephen E. Mawdsley, Selling Science: Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin by Vargha, Dora

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Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, Jonas Salk: A Life by Vargha, Dora

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Grey-market medicines: diphtheria antitoxin and the decay of biomedical infrastructure by Vargha, Dora, Greene, Jeremy A

“…Gift of Parke, Davis & Company, Division of Medicine & Science, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution The epidemic put into motion…”
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Conclusion: Beyond Liberal Internationalism by ANTIC, ANA, CONTERIO, JOHANNA, VARGHA, DORA

“…The contributors to this special issue have taken up the challenge of reconsidering some of the fundamental assumptions that have traditionally underpinned the…”
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The Pandemic and History by Arnold, David, Gómez, Pablo F., John, Maria, Che Leung, Angela Ki, Ngalamulume, Kalala, Vargha, Dora

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Editorial: The Roy Porter Prize by Chakrabarti, Pratik, Skinner, Patricia, Vargha, Dora

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Iron Curtain, iron lungs: Governing polio in Cold War Hungary 1952–1963 by Vargha, Dora

“…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…”
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Iron Curtain, iron lungs: Governing polio in Cold War Hungary 1952--1963 by Vargha, Dora

“…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…”
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This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture by Vargha, Dora

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This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture: Fay Bound Alberti, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, xii + 289 pp., £20.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-19-959903-5 by Vargha, Dora

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A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples by Vargha, Dora

“…Vargha reviews A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples by Randall M. Packard…”
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Risky Medicine: Our Quest to Cure Fear and Uncertainty by Vargha, Dora

“…Aronowitz Robert , Risky Medicine: Our Quest to Cure Fear and Uncertainty (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015), pp. 288, $26.00, cloth, ISBN:…”
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AronowitzRobert, Risky Medicine: Our Quest to Cure Fear and Uncertainty (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015), pp. 288, $26.00, cloth, ISBN: 9780226049717 by Vargha, Dora

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Robert Aronowitz, Risky Medicine: Our Quest to Cure Fear and Uncertainty (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015), pp. 288, $26.00, cloth, ISBN: 9780226049717 by Vargha, Dora

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