Human Comparibility

Author William Saroyan's corn-shucking brand of sentimentality works wonders in this 1943 filmization of his novel. Narrator Ray Collins is dead before the film begins; thus he is able to provide an all-seeing overview of the tiny community of Ithaca, California. The principal character, played by Mickey Rooney, is Collins' son; as the delivery boy for the local telegraph office, Rooney keeps in close contact with virtually every family in town, which results in several comic and poignant moments..

by Jaan Valsiner (Editor), Giuseppina Marsico (Editor), Nandita Chaudhary (Editor), Tatsuya Sato (Editor), Virginia Dazzani (Editor)
Seeks to further a new turn in cultural psychology
Contributions focus on psychology as the science of human ways of being
13th Volume in the Annals of Theoretical Psychology

Doctors Panayiotis Zavos and Severino Antinori claim they are ready to embark on the greatest human experiment of our age. They say they will attempt to clone a human being before the year is out. Most people think the objections to this are ethical – human cloning would create many moral dilemmas.

How can human rights make a difference in the reality of women's lives? The very notion of human rights implies universal application to both women and men