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| Title |
Socialist Utopia in Practice: Everyday Life and Medical Authority in a Hungarian Polio Hospital
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Social History of Medicine, September 2017
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| DOI | 10.1093/shm/hkx064 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Dora Vargha |
| Abstract |
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 care that polio demanded from hospital staff, parents and children, resonated with state socialist political discourses of gender equality and the breakdown of class barriers and conventional hierarchies in medicine. Providing opportunities, as much as failing to fulfil expectations of patients, parents and medical staff, polio care simultaneously created socialist utopias and demonstrated the limits of political ideals. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 17 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 4 | 24% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 12% |
| United States | 2 | 12% |
| Germany | 1 | 6% |
| Isle of Man | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 7 | 41% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 8 | 47% |
| Scientists | 4 | 24% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | 18% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 12% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 8 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 8 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 3 | 38% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 25% |
| Other | 1 | 13% |
| Professor | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 1 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 4 | 50% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 25% |
| Arts and Humanities | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 1 | 13% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 June 2018.
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#2,229,896
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#43,924
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#3
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