1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451822303321

Autore

Snowden Frank M (Frank Martin), <1946->

Titolo

The conquest of malaria [[electronic resource] ] : Italy, 1900-1962 / / Frank M. Snowden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-281-72155-7

9786611721558

0-300-12843-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (viii, 296 p.) ) : ill., map

Disciplina

614.5/32/00945

Soggetti

Malaria - Italy - History - 20th century

Malaria - Treatment - Italy - History - 20th century

Mosquitoes - Control - Italy - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-286) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Malaria: The "Italian National Disease" -- 2. From Miasma to Mosquito: The Rome School of Malariology -- 3. A Nation Mobilizes -- 4. From Quinine to Women's Rights: Hopes, Illusions, and Victories -- 5. The First World War and Epidemic Disease -- 6. Fascism, Racism, and Littoria -- 7. Creating Disaster: Nazism and Bioterror in the Pontine Marshes -- 8. Fighting Disaster: DDT and Old Weapons -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary -- Select Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

At the outset of the twentieth century, malaria was Italy's major public health problem. It was the cause of low productivity, poverty, and economic backwardness, while it also stunted literacy, limited political participation, and undermined the army. In this book Frank Snowden recounts how Italy became the world center for the development of malariology as a medical discipline and launched the first national campaign to eradicate the disease. Snowden traces the early advances, the setbacks of world wars and Fascist dictatorship, and the final victory against malaria after World War II. He shows how the medical and teaching professions helped educate people in their own self-



defense and in the process expanded trade unionism, women's consciousness, and civil liberties. He also discusses the antimalarial effort under Mussolini's regime and reveals the shocking details of the German army's intentional release of malaria among Italian civilians-the first and only known example of bioterror in twentieth-century Europe. Comprehensive and enlightening, this history offers important lessons for today's global malaria emergency.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910970188503321

Titolo

Archaeology and capitalism : from ethics to politics / / edited by Yannis Hamilakis and Philip Duke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Walnut Creek, Calif., : Left Coast Press, c2007

ISBN

1-315-43419-9

1-315-43420-2

1-315-43421-0

1-59874-717-7

9780511155598

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Collana

One world archaeology series ; ; 54

Altri autori (Persone)

HamilakisYannis <1966->

DukeP. G

Disciplina

930.1

Soggetti

Archaeology - Social aspects

Archaeology - Moral and ethical aspects

Archaeologists - Professional ethics

Antiquities - Collection and preservation - Moral and ethical aspects

Archaeology - Political aspects

Archaeology - Philosophy

Postcolonialism

Capitalism - Social aspects

Capitalism - Political aspects

Capitalism - Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on papers submitted to a symposium held at the 5th World Archaeological Congress in Washington, D.C. in 2003.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; pt. 1. Introduction: From ethics to politics / Yannis Hamilakis -- ; pt. 2. Ethics in question -- When theory, practice, and policy collide, or Why do archaeologists support cultural property claims? / Alexander A. Bauer, Shanel Lindsay, and Stephen Urice -- Ethical challenges to a postcolonial archaeology : the legacy of scientific colonialism / George Nicholas and Julie Hollowell -- Cultural sensitivity, science, and ethical imperatives : contemporary archaeology in the Southwestern United States / Charles R. Riggs -- What does it mean "to give the past back to the people"? : archaeology and ethics in the postcolony / Nick Shepherd -- pt. 3. Archaeology in capitalism, archaeology as capitalism -- British commercial archaeology : antiquarians and labourers, developers and diggers / Paul Everill -- Ethics, capitalism, and public archaeology in Brazil / Pedro Paulo A. Funari and Erika M. Robrahn-Gonzalez -- The historical process of the commoditization of the Near Eastern past by archaeologists : empire, war, civilization, and other assets / Tamima Orra Mourad -- Archaeology within marketing capitalism / Alice B. Kehoe -- Sustainable" heritage? : public archaeological interpretation and the marketed past / Neil Asher Silberman -- Contemporary museum practice in Cusco, Peru / Helaine Silverman -- ; pt. 4. Ethical futures, emancipatory archaeologies -- "Grabe, wo du stehst!" : an archaeology of perpetrators / Reinhard Bernbeck and Susan Pollock -- The archaeology of the Spanish Civil War : recovering memory and historical justice / Ermengol Gassiot Ballbe ... [et al.]  -- The culture of caring and its destruction in the Middle East : women's work, water, war, and archaeology / Maggie Ronayne -- Ethics, objectivity, and emancipatory archaeology / Dean J. Saitta.

Sommario/riassunto

The editors and contributors to this volume focus on the inherent political nature of archaeology and its impact on the practice of the discipline. Pointing to the discipline's history of advancing imperialist, colonialist, and racist objectives, they insist that archaeology must rethink its muted professional stance and become more overtly active agents of change. The discipline is not about an abstract "archaeological record" but about living individuals and communities, whose lives and heritage suffer from the abuse of power relationships with states and their agents. Only by recognizi