The anarchist bastard : growing up Italian in America / / Joanna Clapps Herman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910963282103321
• Autore: Herman Joanna Clapps
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, c2011
• ISBN: 9781438436333; 1438436335; 9781441688910; 1441688919
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 p.)
• Collana: SUNY series in Italian/American culture
• Disciplina: 973/.0451
• Soggetti: Italian Americans - Connecticut - Waterbury; Italian Americans - Connecticut - Waterbury - Social life and customs; Waterbury (Conn.) Biography
• 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.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- With and Without Words -- Homer in Waterbury: The Backdrop -- My Homer -- The Unsayable: The Clapps Family -- Peter and His Brothers -- Paulie e ’u Gagaron’ -- My Father Telling Stories -- The Unsayable -- Before and After Tinfoil: The Becce Family -- The Anarchist Bastard -- Rille -- Waiting for Vito -- Tre’ Casse -- Keeping Company -- Flesh and Bone -- Both Are True -- Two -- Before and After Tinfoil -- Stitching Our Voices Together -- Coffee And -- Words and Rags -- My AboriginalWomen -- Uffa: Jojo the Monkey -- Dropping in on Sandy -- Notes of an Unredeemed Catholic -- E ’ Poi? And Then? -- ‘U Bizz’ di Creanz’: A Piece of Politeness -- In Absence -- Without My Tribe -- The Discourse of un’ Propria Papon’ -- Lotions, Potions, and Solutions -- And La La La -- Psychic Arrangements
• Sommario/riassunto: Finalist for the 2011 ForeWord Book of the Year in the Autobiography/Memoir Category"I was born in 1944, but raised in the twelfth century." With that, Joanna Clapps Herman neatly describes the two worlds she inhabited while growing up as the child of Italian American immigrants in Waterbury, Connecticut, a place embedded ; with values closer to Homer's Greece than to Anglo-American New England, where the ethic of hospitality was and still is more Middle Eastern and North African than Anglo-European, and where the pageantry and ritual were more pagan Mediterranean than Western Christian. It was also a place where a stuffed monkey wearing a fedora sat and continues to sit on her grandmother's piano, and a place where, when the donkey got stubborn and wouldn't plow the field, her grandfather bit the animal in a fury. In essays filled with wry humor and affectionate yet probing insights, Herman maps and makes palpable the very particular details of this culture—its pride and its shame, its profound loyalty and its Byzantine betrayals.

America's vital interest in global health : protecting our people, enhancing our economy, and advancing our international interests / / Board on International Health, Institute of Medicine

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910969774203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1997
• ISBN: 9786610210480; 9780309133067; 0309133068; 9781280210488; 1280210486; 9780309568838; 0309568838; 9780585025261; 0585025266
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (72 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1
• Soggetti: World health; Public health - International cooperation; Medical policy - United States; Medical assistance, American
• 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. 51-53).
• Nota di contenuto: America's Vital Interest In Global Health -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Summary -- PROTECTING OUR PEOPLE -- ENHANCING OUR ECONOMY -- ADVANCING OUR INTERNATIONAL INTERESTS -- LEADING FROM STRENGTH -- Part I America And Global Health Change -- 2 The Globalization Of Health: Common Problems, Common Needs -- ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION AND THE TRANSFER OF RISKS -- DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE AND THE EPIDEMIOLOGIC TRANSITION -- POVERTY AND HEALTH -- RISING COSTS OF HEALTH CARE AND THE NEED FOR HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM -- CHANGES IN INTERNATIONAL HEALTH AGENCIES -- 3 Attitudes Toward U.S. Foreign Assistance: Perception And Reality -- SURVEY FINDINGS -- Part II Doing Well by Doing Good: The Rationale for Increased U.S. Involvement -- 4 Protecting Our People -- THREATS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE -- OPPORTUNITIES TO PROTECT OUR PEOPLE -- 5 Enhancing Our Economy -- A MARKET WITH UNFULFILLED POTENTIAL -- LACK OF ECONOMIC INCENTIVES -- OPTIONS FOR INCREASING INVESTMENT IN PRODUCTS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES -- 6 Advancing Our International Interests: Leading from Strength -- INVESTMENT IN SCIENCE HAS PAID HIGH RETURNS AND PROMISES MORE -- U.S. LEADERSHIP IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY -- THE CHANGING ROLE OF THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR AMERICATO SHAPE THE ... -- U.S. LEADERSHIP TO STRENGTHEN HEALTH AND HEALTH INSTITUTIONS -- References -- Appendix Major U.S. Agencies and Organizations Engaged in Global Health Activities -- U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT -- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES -- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- The National Institutes of Health -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE -- NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS AND FOUNDATIONS.
• Sommario/riassunto: As populations throughout the world live longer, there is an increasing trend toward global commonality of health concerns. This trend mirrors a growing demand for health and access to new interventions to prevent, diagnose, and treat disease. The knowledge base required to meet these needs is not only of a technical kind, deriving from experiments of researchers, but must also draw from the experiences of governments in allocating resources effectively and efficiently to improve human health. This report from the Board on International Health of the Institute of Medicine focuses on the interest of the United States in these global health transitions. The report argues that America has a vital and direct stake in the health of people around the globe, and that this interest derives from both America's long and enduring tradition of humanitarian concern and compelling reasons of enlightened self-interest.