Technical assistance and socialist international health: Hungary, the WHO and the Korean War

IF 1 1区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

History and Technology Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI:10.1080/07341512.2020.1863623

Dora Vargha

引用次数: 3

Abstract

ABSTRACT From the establishment of the World Health Organization in 1948, the question of technical assistance was hotly debated by Eastern European countries. Recuperating from the war and undergoing radical political change, they were both recipients and donors of technical assistance in a newly forming system of international health. These countries had specific ideas about the obligations of states and the role of technical aid that did not necessarily map on the dominant, US-led interpretation. While there is a growing literature on technical assistance between Eastern Europe and the so-called Third World, the role of technology and expertise at the intersection of liberal and socialist international health has been little explored. Through the case of hospital-building projects and expert networks from a Hungarian perspective, this paper asks how we can understand socialist engagement in international health, and how technical assistance among the Second and Third worlds fitted into broader systems.

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技术援助和社会主义国际卫生:匈牙利、世界卫生组织和朝鲜战争

自1948年世界卫生组织成立以来，技术援助问题一直是东欧国家激烈争论的问题。它们正从战争中恢复过来，经历着剧烈的政治变革，在新形成的国际卫生体系中，它们既是技术援助的接受者，也是捐助者。这些国家对国家的义务和技术援助的作用有着具体的想法，这些想法并不一定符合美国主导的解释。虽然关于东欧和所谓第三世界之间技术援助的文献越来越多，但技术和专门知识在自由主义和社会主义国际卫生交汇处的作用却很少得到探讨。本文从匈牙利的角度，通过医院建设项目和专家网络的案例，询问我们如何理解社会主义在国际卫生领域的参与，以及第二和第三世界的技术援助如何融入更广泛的体系。

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History and Technology HISTORY-

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1.60

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16.70%

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期刊介绍： History and Technology serves as an international forum for research on technology in history. A guiding premise is that technology—as knowledge, practice, and material resource—has been a key site for constituting the human experience. In the modern era, it becomes central to our understanding of the making and transformation of societies and cultures, on a local or transnational scale. The journal welcomes historical contributions on any aspect of technology but encourages research that addresses this wider frame through commensurate analytic and critical approaches.