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Our Big ShotPolio and the March of Rubles - why medicine trumps politicsIn this episode we look at the fight against polio from ‘The March of the Dimes’ - a famous episode in the history of mass immunisation in which ordinary Americans were inspired to fundraise for research that would go on to end Polio in the US. Professor Dora Vargha leads us through a lesser-told chapter of that story, which is the astonishing international cooperation between US and Soviet scientists at the height of the Cold War. We look at the current challenges with wild polio in Pakistan and Afghanistan with Dr. Hanan Balkhy, regional WHO director, examining how im...2024-11-2629 min
Amare paroleMagiaritàSu sollecitazione di un ascoltatore del podcast, una carrellata tra nomi più o meno famosi ungheresi. E una piccola vicenda legata alla traduzione automatica... Il messaggio di Dora Vargha su X Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-08-0416 min
Amare paroleEp. 67 - MagiaritàSu sollecitazione di un ascoltatore del podcast, una carrellata tra nomi più o meno famosi ungheresi. E una piccola vicenda legata alla traduzione automatica...Il messaggio di Dora Vargha su X Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2024-08-0416 min
Ökoóra-KlímaszervízElindult az aláírásgyűjtés a kiemelt beruházásokról szóló népszavazáshozÖkoóra-klímaszervíz:
A következő négy hónapban kétszázezer érvényes aláírást kell összegyűjteni ahhoz, hogy a kiemelt beruházásokról szóló törvényi szabályozást megsemmisíthesse a nép. Feltéve, ha a népet érdekli például a Balaton-part vagy a Fertő tó beépítésének megakadályozása, vagy a nép szeretne tenni a környezetszennyező akkumulátorgyárak telepítése ellen. Ezeket a hosszú távú következményekkel járó beruházásokat ugyanis a kiemelt beruházásról szóló törvényi ci...2024-07-1747 min
Perspectives on ScienceIsisCB on Pandemics: Fundamental Concepts in Understanding Pandemic DiseasesThis episode of the IsisCB Pandemics series features contributors who wrote and reviewed bibliographic essays surveying the literature about concepts fundamental to our understanding of pandemic and epidemic diseases, such as the broad disciplinary category of epidemiology, as well as the specific concepts of vaccinations and syndemics. Offering their perspectives on the significance of these topics are: Lukas Engelmann, Jacob Steere-Williams and Dora Vargha. They discuss how historians can move away from a model of biography of disease and towards a better understanding of the co-occurrence of disease epidemics with epidemics of social phenomena.
For more information and additional resources...2023-05-2649 min
RevDem PodcastA Global History of Hungary:
In Conversation with Ferenc Laczó, Bálint Varga, and Dóra VarghaIn this conversation with Bence Bari and Orsolya Sudár, editors Ferenc Laczó and Bálint Varga and contributor Dóra Vargha discuss the new volume Magyarország globális története, 1869-2022 (A Global History of Hungary, 1869-2022). The conversation focuses on some of the innovative questions posed by trying to reconceptualize the history of a Central and Eastern European country in a global frame; how the subjects of the volume’s one hundred chapters have been selected; the relation of this new book to other narratives of Hungarian history; and the more political stakes of releasing such a publicat...2022-06-201h 05
The InquiryHow do pandemics end?After two really difficult years living in the grip of Covid-19, restrictions are winding down and international borders are opening up in countries around the world. Striking the right balance between the needs of a population fed up with lockdowns and scientists warning we’ve only reached the end of the beginning is complicated to get right. While it may feel like the worst of Covid-19 has passed, the disease still poses a real threat to us. We ignore this fact at our peril. So, in this week’s Inquiry Sandra Kanthal will be asking how pandemics really end. 2022-05-1924 min
COVIDCallsEP #485 - 3.16.2022 - Restoring Memory: Pandemic and War Part 2My name is Jacob Steere-Williams, I am a Historian of Epidemic Disease and Public Health at the College of Charleston. I’ll be guest hosting a series of episodes for this special program, but you can catch most of them with the regular host and founder of COVID-Calls, Scott Knowles.
This is Part 2 of a two-part episode exploring the entanglement of the COVID-19 pandemic and the War in Ukraine. Last hour I spoke with Ukrainian health expert Pavlo Kovtoniuk and historian Dora Vargha. On February 24th, 2022, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted that Putin had “launched a full...2022-03-2851 minCOVIDCallsEP #484 - 3.16.2022 - Restoring Memory: Pandemic and War Part 1This is Part 1 of a two-part episode exploring the entanglement of the COVID-19 pandemic and the War in Ukraine. On February 24th, 2022, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted that Putin had “launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.” Russian attacks began that Thursday after Russian President Vladimir Putin approved in a televised address “a special military operation” in Ukraine. Russian missiles began to attack cities and civilians all across Ukraine. Three weeks later the war in Ukraine rages on. 2 to 3 million Ukrainians have fled the country, and millions more displaced internally within the country, creating a tremendous humanitarian crisis, and what i...2022-03-2858 min
Transformative PodcastGlobal Health: A View From the Socialist World (Dora Vargha)The Covid-19 pandemic has shown the world the importance of coordinating health policies at a global level. What can we learn from the history and politics of global health? In this episode, moderated by Anna Calori (RECET), Dora Vargha reflects upon the role of the socialist world in shaping the recent history of medicine, as well as current approaches to global health and epidemics.
Dora Vargha is Professor of History and Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter and at Humboldt University, Berlin. She is principal investigator of the ERC-funded project “Socialist Medicine: an Alternative Global Health History”, and the “Connect...2022-02-0214 min
How Epidemics EndDora Vargha and Arthur Rose on Epidemics, Expectations, and EndsKristin Heitman talks with Dora Vargha (Exeter) and Arthur Rose (Exeter) about the nature and power of narrative in forming both our expectations about epidemics and the ways that we decide when and how they have ended.2021-10-0817 minCOVIDCallsEP#319 - 08.11.2021 - South Africa, HIV/AIDS, and Epidemiology w/Guest Host Jacob Steere-WilliamsWelcome to the 319th episode of COVID-Calls, a daily discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts. My name is Jacob Steere-Williams, I am a historian of public health at the College of Charleston, in Charleston, South Carolina. This week I will be the guest host of COVID-Calls while the program’s founder, Scott Knowles, takes a much-needed recharge.
Dr Mandisa Mbali joined the Department of Historical Studies in 2017 from Stellenbosch University, where she taught Social Anthropology. She obtained her doctoral degree in Modern History at Oxford University. Her main research interest is in he...2021-08-111h 08
BIC TALKSLearning from Epidemics PastThe enduring persistence, resurgence and mutation of many epidemic diseases have made apparent the problematic nature of the ‘epidemic disease narrative’ in the 21st century. Through the lens of the history of polio vaccination and treatment from a seemingly peripheral, Eastern European perspective, Dora Vargha aims to shift our attention to question what, when, and for whom is an end of an epidemic ‘the end’, and what happens after. This episode of BIC Talks is in association with Science Gallery Bengaluru and was originally part of their ongoing online exhibition season - Contagion, open until the 13th of June...2021-05-1553 min
Infectious HistoriansEpisode 55 - Polio in Hungary and the End of Epidemics with Dora VarghaDora Vargha (University of Exeter) talks to Merle and Lee about her work on polio epidemics after World War Two in Hungary. After unpacking the basic information on polio’s longer history, Dora discusses how polio struck Hungary during the 1950s and the way in which vaccines were introduced that stopped the epidemics by the 1960s. She uses polio as a lens to reveal some of the shifting gaps in the Iron Curtain, where east and west worked together to stop these deadly epidemics. Dora then talks about how her work on polio has led her to reconceptualize how ep...2021-04-091h 06
Breast Cancer Is BoringMedical MisogynyIt's My Body My Choice versus bros with scalpels, and dudes your days are numbered. Enjoy.
Links from the episode:
Kim Bowles' story in Cosmo: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/health-fitness/a22984204/breast-cancer-survivors-mastectomy-sexism/
Serena Williams' story in Vogue: https://www.vogue.com/article/serena-williams-vogue-cover-interview-february-2018
Study showing disparity in mortality rates between black and white breast cancer patients: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3603001/
American Cancer Society reporting 40% higher mortality rate in black women with breast cancer: https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/cancer-org/research/cancer-facts-and-statistics/cancer-facts-and-figures-for-african-americans/cancer-facts-and-figures-for-african-americans-2019-2021.pdf
Post with link to Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy (CPM) study...2021-04-051h 32
Arts & IdeasNew Thinking: Ways of Talking about HealthDes Fitzgerald talks to the winners of the AHRC and Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Awards 2020. Each has looked at how the arts can help our understanding of health and wellbeing - and, includes research into how the stigma surrounding obesity contributes to the obesity crisis and innovative art therapy techniques with long term mental health benefits for patients. AHRC and Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Awards 2020
• Best Research Award: The Hearing the Voice team at Durham University
• Best Early Career Research Award: Dr Oli Williams, The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at Kings College London
• Best International Award...2020-12-0953 minPerspectives on ScienceDora Vargha On COVID-19Dora Vargha talks about the role of international institutions during a pandemic.
Find this podcast and more in the Consortium's series on COVID-19 at:
https://www.chstm.org/video/742020-06-0404 minPerspectives on ScienceDora Vargha — Polio Across the Iron Curtain: Hungary's Cold War with an EpidemicIn 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/722020-06-0429 min
#BirkbeckVoicesLanguages of Internationalism – Roundtable DiscussionIn the concluding session of the conference on ‘Languages of Internationalism’, hosted by the Reluctant Internationalists research group, members of the project both past and present reflect on how language can be a tool of communication, solidarity and unity, as well as a force of division and alienation. Participants included: Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck), Dora Vargha (University of Exeter), Brigid O’Keefe (Brooklyn College), Johanna Conterio (Flinders University), Ana Antic (University of Exeter), David Brydan (Birkbeck), Heidi Tworek (University of British Columbia), and Elidor Mëhilli (Hunter College).
‘Languages of Internationalism’ aimed to shed light on the centrality of language to people’s pu...2017-06-1747 min
#BirkbeckVoicesLanguages of Socialist InternationalismAs part of a conference on ‘Languages of Internationalism’, hosted by the Reluctant Internationalists research group, Dora Vargha (University of Exeter), Elidor Mëhilli (Hunter College) and Rachel Applebaum (Tufts University – recorded in discussion only) examine the languages of socialist internationalism. The panel, chaired by Johanna Conterio (Flinders University), addresses languages of health and disease in Hungary, the power of Russian in Albania, and Russian as a foreign language in Cold War Czechoslovakia.
‘Languages of Internationalism’ aimed to shed light on the centrality of language to people’s pursuit and experiences of internationalism. Language is at the heart of every international...2017-06-171h 21
#BirkbeckVoicesCold War(Mis-)CommunicationAs part of a conference on ‘Languages of Internationalism’, hosted by the Reluctant Internationalists research group, Diana Georgescu (University College London), Pey-Yi Chu (Pomona College), Beatrice Wayne (New York University) and Dina Fainberg (City, University of London) discuss language and communication during the Cold War. The panel, chaired by Dora Vargha (University of Exeter) highlight frictions and tensions which emerged over the use of language in international settings.
‘Languages of Internationalism’ aimed to shed light on the centrality of language to people’s pursuit and experiences of internationalism. Language is at the heart of every international enterprise, but as the conference...2017-06-172h 03
#BirkbeckVoicesWriting Outsiders into the History of International Public Health: International Health NetworksAs part of a workshop hosted by the Reluctant Internationalists research group on Writing ‘Outsiders’ into the History of International Public Health, Jessica Pearson (Macalester), Dora Vargha (Exeter) and Ana Antic (Exeter) addressed inclusion and exclusion in international health networks. The panel, chaired by David Brydan (Birkbeck), discussed life beyond the WHO, both for colonial powers and for many socialist states. In addition, debate turned to the importance of distinguishing between global public health and international public health.
The workshop examined what impact factoring in “outsiders” would make to the way historians write the history of international public health. In addition...2017-04-101h 36
#BirkbeckVoicesWriting Outsiders into the History of International Public Health: Giving and TakingAs part of a workshop hosted by the Reluctant Internationalists research group on Writing ‘Outsiders’ into the History of International Public Health, Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck), Lion Murard (French National Centre for Scientific Research), Yitang Lin and Thomas David (University of Lausanne) and Davide Rodogno (University of Geneva) discussed the political dimensions of international health. The panel, chaired by Dora Vargha (Exeter), addressed the theme of giving and taking in international public health and examined who can be regarded as an ‘outsider’.
The workshop examined what impact factoring in “outsiders” would make to the way historians write the history of international public healt...2017-04-101h 47
#BirkbeckVoicesDebating the Cold War: What was Cold War Science?As part of a workshop hosted by the Reluctant Internationalists research group on Debating the Cold War, Alma Steingart (Harvard), Jonathan Oldfield (Birmingham), Jon Agar (UCL), Iris Borowy (Shanghai), Sarah Marks (Cambridge), Lukasz Stanek (Manchester) and Waqar Zaidi (Lums) discuss what was Cold War science? The panel, chaired by Dora Vargha (Birkbeck) asks: can we talk about ‘Cold War science’?
Histories of Cold War science and medicine have focused on Big Science, nuclear and atomic science, and space exploration. But science in the two blocks has featured in the historiography in very different terms: on one side stand accounts of West...2017-03-281h 16
Objects in MotionDora Vargha - Traveling Pathogens, Flying Vaccines: A Story of Failure in Global Polio VaccinationDora Vargha (University of London)
Traveling pathogens, flying vaccines: a story of failure in global polio vaccination2016-01-0422 minObjects in MotionDora Vargha - Traveling Pathogens, Flying Vaccines: A Story of Failure in Global Polio VaccinationDora Vargha (University of London)
Traveling pathogens, flying vaccines: a story of failure in global polio vaccination2016-01-0422 min