Dora Vargha — Polio Across the Iron Curtain: Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic
Perspectives on Science
English - June 04, 2020 20:55 - 29 minutes - 23.7 MBEducation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this podcast, we discuss the history of vaccines and public health with Dora Vargha, author of Polio Across the Iron Curtain: Hungary's Cold War with an Epidemic.
Dora 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.
Dora Vargha was a 2010 to 2011 Dissertation Research Fellow and 2015 to 2016 Research Fellow at the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine.
Find this podcast and further resources on the Consortium's website at:
https://www.chstm.org/video/72