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From Rehabilitation Program to Strategic Embargo. International Community and the Central and Eastern Europe's Quest for Penicillin after World War II.

2014/13/B/HS3/04951

Keywords:

history of technology history of science technology transfer pharmaceutical industry antibiotics Central and Eastern Europe

Descriptors:

  • HS3_4: Economic history
  • HS3_5: Cultural history (incl. historical memory, history of material culture, historical cultural studies, cultural diversity)

Panel:

HS3 - The study of the human past: history, archaeology, ethnology, cultural anthropology

Host institution :

Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów PAN

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Sławomir Łotysz 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 1

Call: OPUS 7 - announced on 2014-03-17

Amount awarded: 162 500 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2015-02-02

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2020-02-01

Project duration:: 60 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (5)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (4)
  1. International Health Organizations and the dissemination of penicillin production methods in the early Cold War era. The case of UNRRA activities in Europe, and the work of ABMAC in China (国际卫生组织与冷战初期盘尼西林 生产方式的传播 – 以联合国善后救济总署在欧活动和美国 医药援华会在华事务为例)
    Authors:
    Sławomir Łotysz
    Academic press:
    Journal of the Social History of Medicine and Health (医疗社会史研究) (rok: 2017, tom: vol. 2, nr 1, strony: 45382), Wydawca: Shanghai University
    Status:
    Published
  2. Rzeczoznawcy budowlani w sporze o lokalizację pierwszej polskiej fabryki penicyliny
    Authors:
    Sławomir Łotysz
    Academic press:
    Materiały Budowlane (rok: 2018, tom: 3, strony: 64-65), Wydawca: SIGMA-NOT
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.15199/33.2018.03.26 - link to the publication
  3. Desert Mould: Witold Odrzywolski and His Work on Crude Penicillin in a Military Hospital in the Middle East in 1944
    Authors:
    Sławomir Łotysz
    Academic press:
    Kwartalnik Historyczny (rok: 2020, tom: 127, nr 4, strony: 77-103), Wydawca: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.12775/KH.2020.127.SI.1.03 - link to the publication
  4. Penicylina i protezy. Pomoc UNRRA w odbudowie polskiego przemysłu medycznego po II wojnie światowej
    Authors:
    Sławomir Łotysz
    Academic press:
    Kultura Współczesna: teoria, interpretacje, krytyka (rok: 2018, tom: 3, strony: 118-130), Wydawca: Narodowe Centrum Kultury
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.26112/kw.2018.102.10 - link to the publication
  5. Kraków czy Tarchomin? Historia sporu o lokalizację fabryki penicyliny przekazanej Polsce w ramach programu pomocowego UNRRA (1946–1947)
    Authors:
    Sławomir Łotysz
    Academic press:
    Analecta: Studia i Materiały z Dziejów Nauki (rok: 2018, tom: R. 23, nr 1, strony: 289-310), Wydawca: Instytut Historii Nauki im. L. i A. Birkenmajerów PAN
    Status:
    Published
  1. Knowledge as aid: Locals experts, international health organizations and building the first Czechoslovak penicillin factory, 1944-9
    Authors:
    Sławomir Łotysz
    Book:
    Internationalists in European History. Rethinking the Twentieth Century, red. Jessica Reinisch i David Brydan (rok: 2021, tom: nd., strony: 140-157), Wydawca: Bloomsbury
    Status:
    Published
  2. -
    Authors:
    Sławomir Łotysz
    Book:
    Fabryka z darów. Penicylina za żelazną kurtyną 1945-1954 (rok: 2020, tom: nd., strony: 253), Wydawca: Aspra-JR
    Status:
    Published
  3. A bargain or a 'mousetrap'? Reused penicillin plant and the Yugoslavians quest for a healthier life in the early post-war era (1946-1950)
    Authors:
    Sławomir Łotysz
    Book:
    The Persistence of Technology. Histories of Repair, Reuse and Disposal, red. Stefan Krebs i Heike Weber (rok: 2022, tom: nd., strony: 187-205), Wydawca: Transcript
    Status:
    Published
  4. -
    Authors:
    Sławomir Łotysz
    Book:
    Factories as Aid. Penicillin behind the Iron Curtain, 1945-1954 (rok: 2023, tom: nd., strony: 206), Wydawca: John Hopkins University Press
    Status:
    Submitted