Judit Sándor
Biographic Data
| ID | 1542278 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judit Sándor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judit |
| FAMILY NAME | Sándor |
| SIGNATURE | SÁNDOR J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central European University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0134-4414 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Protecting Health in State Socialist Central Europe: Common Aims, National Constitutions and Varieties of Socialist Development
The protection of health was a shared ideological objective of Central European state socialist regimes. The objective was incorporated into the constitutions adopted by these regimes, which were essential instruments for communicating their political promises and programmes of transformation. However, health protection, which was recognised as a right of citizens and a state task, was not treated the same way in the different constitutional docu…
The biopolitics of menstruation in Hungary: Then and now
This article focuses on postwar Hungary, including the transition from state socialism to peripheral capitalism. This era is especially important as during the decades of cold war one of the main claims was that social and welfare rights - including the right to healthcare - were exemplary in state socialism and much more advanced than in the capitalisms of the West. This article argues, however, that even though social welfare rights were advanc…
Mapping the postwar legacies of eugenics in socialist countries: A conceptual history of eugenics in Hungary
The paper aims to understand the various legacies of eugenics in the postwar period to recognize both the continuities and discontinuities of eugenics with an approach which is both conceptually sound and historically correct. Building on earlier work of Lene Koch, the paper endeavours to chart the historical trajectory of eugenics by examining how its definition and those of its related or oppositional concepts have evolved within selected lexic…
Needs over rights: The right to health in state socialist Hungary and its implementation
State socialist Hungary undertook historically unparalleled action to satisfy the health needs of its population. To support its efforts, it recognized in its constitution the protection of health as an essential state task and, later, a right to health. Although formulated as a right of citizens, the right to health was not available to enfranchise the individual. Instead, it expressed common social needs, as well as the responsibility and the i…
Women Facing the Committee: Decision-Making on Abortion in Postwar Hungary
In this article, we examine the medical, legal, social, and political context of abortion in Hungary after the Second World War, with special attention to the decision-making process of the so-called abortion committees. These committees collected data on the social and medical status of women to support their decision on whether to permit the operation or not. In the first half of the 1950s and after 1973, the committees were given a relatively …
The Vaccination Cold War
Surveying the early responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic among nation states, one finds a veritable babel of responses, some predictable and some not. Would these results have been different half a century or more ago, when smallpox was eradicated and hopes were high that international cooperation would yield similar results for other infectious diseases? Is this a story about the stability provided by the bipolar postwar world, juxtaposed with the…
Rebalancing human rights at the time of Covid-19 pandemic
The year of 2020 will certainly be in all future books on the history of epidemiology and the Covid-19 pandemic will be discussed in them as perhaps the most significant public health challenge since the Spanish flu. But I also hope that it will feature as a new chapter in the books on health and human rights. The suffering of millions of people around the world, the deaths and medical challenges have already presented many lessons to learn from.…
Legislation of direct-to-consumer genetic testing in Europe: A fragmented regulatory landscape
Despite the increasing availability of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing, it is currently unclear how such services are regulated in Europe, due to the lack of EU or national legislation specifically addressing this issue. In this article, we provide an overview of laws that could potentially impact the regulation of DTC genetic testing in 26 European countries, namely Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland…
New Cannibal Markets: Globalization and Commodification of the Human Body
Thanks to recent progress in biotechnology, surrogacy, transplantation of organs and tissues, blood products or stem-cell and gamete banks are now widely used throughout the world. These techniques improve the health and well-being of some human beings using products or functions that come from the body of others. Growth in demand and absence of an appropriate international legal framework have led to the development of a lucrative global trade i…
Reproduction, Self, and State
exported from refbase (http://www.bibliography.ceu.hu/show.php?record=3984), last updated on Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:25:01 +0200
Reproductive Rights in Hungarian Law: A New Right to Assisted Procreation
Hungary has a mixed record in terms of fulfilling reproductive rights as a whole, but in the context of artificially assisted procreation, it provides reproductive health services far beyond those offered by its neighbors, beyond what is stipulated by the ICPD Programme of Action, and, arguably, beyond the internationally accepted parameters of reproductive rights. Recent legislation on assisted procreation has established important new regulatio…
New Cannibal Markets: Globalization and Commodification of the Human Body
Thanks to recent progress in biotechnology, surrogacy, transplantation of organs and tissues, blood products or stem-cell and gamete banks are now widely used throughout the world. These techniques improve the health and well-being of some human beings using products or functions that come from the body of others. Growth in demand and absence of an appropriate international legal framework have led to the development of a lucrative global trade i…
Rebalancing human rights at the time of Covid-19 pandemic
The year of 2020 will certainly be in all future books on the history of epidemiology and the Covid-19 pandemic will be discussed in them as perhaps the most significant public health challenge since the Spanish flu. But I also hope that it will feature as a new chapter in the books on health and human rights. The suffering of millions of people around the world, the deaths and medical challenges have already presented many lessons to learn from.…
Reproductive Rights in Hungarian Law: A New Right to Assisted Procreation
Hungary has a mixed record in terms of fulfilling reproductive rights as a whole, but in the context of artificially assisted procreation, it provides reproductive health services far beyond those offered by its neighbors, beyond what is stipulated by the ICPD Programme of Action, and, arguably, beyond the internationally accepted parameters of reproductive rights. Recent legislation on assisted procreation has established important new regulatio…
Reproduction, Self, and State
exported from refbase (http://www.bibliography.ceu.hu/show.php?record=3984), last updated on Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:25:01 +0200
New Cannibal Markets: Globalization and Commodification of the Human Body
Thanks to recent progress in biotechnology, surrogacy, transplantation of organs and tissues, blood products or stem-cell and gamete banks are now widely used throughout the world. These techniques improve the health and well-being of some human beings using products or functions that come from the body of others. Growth in demand and absence of an appropriate international legal framework have led to the development of a lucrative global trade i…
Legislation of direct-to-consumer genetic testing in Europe: A fragmented regulatory landscape
Despite the increasing availability of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing, it is currently unclear how such services are regulated in Europe, due to the lack of EU or national legislation specifically addressing this issue. In this article, we provide an overview of laws that could potentially impact the regulation of DTC genetic testing in 26 European countries, namely Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland…
Rebalancing human rights at the time of Covid-19 pandemic
The year of 2020 will certainly be in all future books on the history of epidemiology and the Covid-19 pandemic will be discussed in them as perhaps the most significant public health challenge since the Spanish flu. But I also hope that it will feature as a new chapter in the books on health and human rights. The suffering of millions of people around the world, the deaths and medical challenges have already presented many lessons to learn from.…
The Vaccination Cold War
Surveying the early responses to the Covid‐19 pandemic among nation states, one finds a veritable babel of responses, some predictable and some not. Would these results have been different half a century or more ago, when smallpox was eradicated and hopes were high that international cooperation would yield similar results for other infectious diseases? Is this a story about the stability provided by the bipolar postwar world, juxtaposed with the…
Women Facing the Committee: Decision-Making on Abortion in Postwar Hungary
In this article, we examine the medical, legal, social, and political context of abortion in Hungary after the Second World War, with special attention to the decision-making process of the so-called abortion committees. These committees collected data on the social and medical status of women to support their decision on whether to permit the operation or not. In the first half of the 1950s and after 1973, the committees were given a relatively …
Mapping the postwar legacies of eugenics in socialist countries: A conceptual history of eugenics in Hungary
The paper aims to understand the various legacies of eugenics in the postwar period to recognize both the continuities and discontinuities of eugenics with an approach which is both conceptually sound and historically correct. Building on earlier work of Lene Koch, the paper endeavours to chart the historical trajectory of eugenics by examining how its definition and those of its related or oppositional concepts have evolved within selected lexic…
Needs over rights: The right to health in state socialist Hungary and its implementation
State socialist Hungary undertook historically unparalleled action to satisfy the health needs of its population. To support its efforts, it recognized in its constitution the protection of health as an essential state task and, later, a right to health. Although formulated as a right of citizens, the right to health was not available to enfranchise the individual. Instead, it expressed common social needs, as well as the responsibility and the i…
The biopolitics of menstruation in Hungary: Then and now
This article focuses on postwar Hungary, including the transition from state socialism to peripheral capitalism. This era is especially important as during the decades of cold war one of the main claims was that social and welfare rights - including the right to healthcare - were exemplary in state socialism and much more advanced than in the capitalisms of the West. This article argues, however, that even though social welfare rights were advanc…
Protecting Health in State Socialist Central Europe: Common Aims, National Constitutions and Varieties of Socialist Development
The protection of health was a shared ideological objective of Central European state socialist regimes. The objective was incorporated into the constitutions adopted by these regimes, which were essential instruments for communicating their political promises and programmes of transformation. However, health protection, which was recognised as a right of citizens and a state task, was not treated the same way in the different constitutional docu…
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