Socialist Utopia in Practice: Everyday Life and Medical Authority in a Hungarian Polio Hospital

Based on oral history interviews, medical literature, hospital newsletters, memoirs and news media, this article explores the ways in which ideals of socialism interacted with medical practice in polio care in 1950s Hungary. Through the everyday life of polio hospitals, it argues that the specific c...

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Main Author: Vargha, Dora
Format: Online Article Text
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2018
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Original Articles
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6018929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29991853
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkx064

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6018929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29991853
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkx064

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