Exploring how family life has radically changed in recent decades, this comprehensive Research Handbook tracks the latest developments and trends in scholarly work on the family. With a particular focus on the European context, it addresses current debates and offers insights into key topics including: the division of housework, family forms and living arrangements, intergenerational relationships, partner choice, divorce and fertility behaviour. Bringing together contributions from leading family sociologists, the Research Handbook examines important questions: have family patterns across different countries become more similar, or have differences between countries and social groups increased over time? How diverse are family forms across different countries? How do conventional theories explain these patterns? And what are the major innovations in theorising and describing family behaviour? In order to resolve these key points, the chapters provide an overview of past and present developments in scholarly work on European families. They also present concise overviews of theories, methods, critical debates, empirical findings and pathways for future research. Its analysis of important areas of research in the field will make this Research Handbook a valuable resource for scholars and students of sociology, demography, and family and gender policy. It will also be beneficial for policy experts in these fields.

Intimately tied to the tenets of the Enlightenment, Romanticism arose as a sort of reaction to that trend, most noticeably in the arts. The movement, which originated in Europe in the late 18th century and lasted until the mid- 19th century, focused on emotion, imagination, an attachment to nature, nostalgia, and spirituality. The art, music and literature produced by that period have been some of history's most influential, and the tenets of the movement spilled over into politics, especially in nationalistic causes. This accessibly written volume is rounded out by primary source documents, biographies of key figures, and a selected bibliography of print and nonprint sources-an ideal resource for students being introduced to the philosophies, works, and artists of the era. Intimately tied to the tenets of the Enlightenment, Romanticism arose as a sort of reaction to that trend, most noticeably in the arts. The movement, which originated in Europe in the late 18th century and lasted until the mid-19th century, focused on emotion, imagination, an attachment to nature, nostalgia, and spirituality. The art, music and literature produced by the period have been some of history's most influential, and the tenets of the movement spilled over into politics, especially in nationalistic causes. This accessibly written volume explores the most critical aspects of the Romantic movement, including its origins as a reaction to the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, its artistic works-poetry, prose, drama, painting, and music-and its environmentalistic and nationalistic legacies. Primary source documents, biographies of key figures, and a selected bibliography of print and nonprint sources make this work an ideal reference source for students and general readers being introduced to the philosophies, works, and artists of the era.

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Based on the German case, this open access book highlights the increasing flows of migration and the internationalisation of individual life courses. It analyses the experiences of migration across four central domains - employment and income, partners and families, health and wellbeing, as well as friends and social participation - which potentially have far-reaching consequences for social inequalities and life chances. The book showcases results from an innovative probability sample that is representative of German emigrants who recently moved abroad and remigrants who recently returned from abroad and compares their international experiences with the sedentary population in Germany. Stays abroad, whether temporary or permanently, have become the new normal for increasing numbers of people from highly developed welfare states. Unnoticed from mainstream migration studies, these countries are today not only major immigration countries but also important sources of international mobility. By providing an empirically founded prism of the global lives of German migrants, this book is a valuable resource for students and researchers of migration, social inequality, and the life course and provides practitioners with insights into these regularly overlooked aspects of international migration.

Since 1984, when the second volume of Women in Western European History became available, a significant amount of new material has been published that will be of importance to researchers and students with an interest in women's status and experiences in European history. This new bibliography, which encompasses the period from antiquity to the present, supplements and udpates the earlier volumes. In addition to new and recently discovered works, later editions and translations of previously cited works are offered.

This book represents the first interdisciplinary text on the emerging field of rehabilitative surgery, in which state of the art procedures from multiple surgical specialties are combined. It proposes a completely new framework for understanding, coordinating, and providing treatment for paralyzed or severely neurologically impaired patients and explains the potentially critical impact of surgery in creating a new baseline of functional status, thereby improving the patient's daily life. Every major aspect of reconstructive surgical treatment is considered, including anesthesia, orthopedic surgery, plastic surgery, neurosurgery, general surgery, vascular surgery, and otolaryngology. The most up-to-date and evidence-based surgeries are clearly described and evaluated, with coverage of treatment of pressure sores, placement of feeding tubes, and upper extremity interventions to improve function and hygiene. Cutting-edge protocols are presented for the surgical treatment of severe nerve injuries, spinal cord injuries, and stroke or cerebrovascular accidents, and a first description and evaluation of phrenic nerve repair to assist weaning of paralyzed patients from ventilators is provided. Both surgical and nonsurgical readers will find this book to be an ideal guide and reference.

This book represents the first interdisciplinary text on the emerging field of rehabilitative surgery, in which state of the art procedures from multiple surgical specialties are combined. It proposes a completely new framework for understanding, coordinating, and providing treatment for paralyzed or severely neurologically impaired patients and explains the potentially critical impact of surgery in creating a new baseline of functional status, thereby improving the patient's daily life. Every major aspect of reconstructive surgical treatment is considered, including anesthesia, orthopedic surgery, plastic surgery, neurosurgery, general surgery, vascular surgery, and otolaryngology. The most up-to-date and evidence-based surgeries are clearly described and evaluated, with coverage of treatment of pressure sores, placement of feeding tubes, and upper extremity interventions to improve function and hygiene. Cutting-edge protocols are presented for the surgical treatment of severe nerve injuries, spinal cord injuries, and stroke or cerebrovascular accidents, and a first description and evaluation of phrenic nerve repair to assist weaning of paralyzed patients from ventilators is provided. Both surgical and nonsurgical readers will find this book to be an ideal guide and reference.

In the past 10-15 years marked progress has been made in the surgical treatment of congenital anomalies of the hand. More and more, the reluctance to operate on these deformities has been abandoned. One reason for this - at least in the German-speaking countries - was the thalidomide catastrophe (1959-1962), which involved the birth of many children with deformed upper limbs. These previously rare severe abnormalities resulted in many problems and required new ways of thinking in terms of their treatment by all persons concerned with their care. At the same time hand surgery was beginning to come of age and the combination of these two events increased the interest in the field of hand anomalies, particularly by orthopaedic surgeons who had always been involved in it. The idea and preparation for this book go back to 1964. Since that time nearly all operations on anomalous hands were systematically charted by us. They were photographically recorded from skin incision to wound closure. Regular follow-up examinations were performed. This atlas represents our experience gained in over a thousand operations. The book has been written by practitioners. We hope that a hand surgeon looking for additional advice will find answers in regard to therapy and surgical suggestions. This intent influenced the book's compilation and structure: - Only those operations that have given us good long-term results will be discussed.

Based on the German case, this open access book highlights the increasing flows of migration and the internationalisation of individual life courses. It analyses the experiences of migration across four central domains - employment and income, partners and families, health and wellbeing, as well as friends and social participation - which potentially have far-reaching consequences for social inequalities and life chances. The book showcases results from an innovative probability sample that is representative of German emigrants who recently moved abroad and remigrants who recently returned from abroad and compares their international experiences with the sedentary population in Germany. Stays abroad, whether temporary or permanently, have become the new normal for increasing numbers of people from highly developed welfare states. Unnoticed from mainstream migration studies, these countries are today not only major immigration countries but also important sources of international mobility. By providing an empirically founded prism of the global lives of German migrants, this book is a valuable resource for students and researchers of migration, social inequality, and the life course and provides practitioners with insights into these regularly overlooked aspects of international migration.

This documentation of Remarque's (1898-1970) AAll Quiet on the Western FrontA combines the features expected of a commentary edition with an analysis of the marketing strategies connected with the novel's publication and a discussion of the reactions of the press in the period 1928 to 1930. Genesis, publication, and early reception of Remarque's anti-war novel are presented for the first time in the way they interconnect. Accordingly, the study's scope extends beyond the individual case of this one novel to encompass a large portion of the literature on the First World War by indicating the evaluation criteria drawn upon in the Weimar Republic to deal with this genre. - Appended is a CD-ROM with synoptic editions of different stages of the text.

Korea and Germany are commonly described as emblematic examples of divided nations. But while Korea is still divided Germany has gone through a peaceful unification. The book offers a unique comparative study on the demographic change in these divided countries. It also investigates the developments after Germany's unification. Based on this demographic insights of a merged society it asks about their use and limits for a possible Korean scenario of reunification.

English summary: The contributions to this volume range from eye witness reports on 11th September, 2001 back to the wars of the 17th century. The volume includes a study of the mass media presentation of the contemporary myth about the achievements of the naval cruiser Emden in the First World War, analyses of Max Frisch's The Chinese Wall (Die Chinesische Mauer) and works by Pat Barker. The volume offers a diversity of approaches and nevertheless only represents a small spectrum in the range of possible topics. It is completed by critical reviews of recent publications and a bibliography of academic publications from the year 2005. German & English text. German description: Augenzeugenberichte zum 11. September 2001 und zu den Kriegen des 17. Jahrhunderts spannen den Bogen der Beitrage des vorliegenden Bandes. Eine Untersuchung der massenmedialen Darstellung der Taten des Kreuzers Emden im Ersten Weltkrieg - eine der zeitgenossischen Mythen - steht neben Analysen von Max Frischs Die Chinesische Mauer und den Schriften Pat Barkers. Der Band zeichnet sich durch eine Vielfalt von Ansatzen aus und reprasentiert dennoch nur ein kleines Spektrum der Bandbreite moglicher Themen. Erganzt werden die Beitrage durch Rezensionen zu einschlagigen Neuerscheinungen sowie durch eine Bibliographie wissenschaftlicher Publikationen aus dem Jahr 2005.

Job-related spatial mobility is a subject of great importance in Europe. But how mobile are Europeans? What are the consequences of professional mobility for quality of life, family life, and social relationships? For the first time, these questions are analyzed on the basis of the findings of a large-scale European survey. The contributions in Volume I are directed at the diversity and the extent of mobility in six European countries - Germany, Spain, France, Poland, Switzerland, and Belgium. In Volume II (due early in 2009), the causes and determinants of job mobility and their individual and social consequences are analyzed in cross-national comparisons.

Job-related spatial mobility is a subject of great importance in Europe. But how mobile are the Europeans? What are the consequences of professional mobility for quality of life, family life, and social relationships? For the first time, these questions are analyzed on the basis of the data of a large-scale European survey. This volume analyzes the causes and determinants of job mobility and the individual and societal consequences in cross-national comparison. Contents include: Theoretical Framework * Methodological Issues * Historical Perspective * Phenomenology of Mobile Living * The Process of Becoming Mobile * Family Life and Job Mobility * Job Careers and Job Mobility * Social Integration and Job Mobility * Job Mobility and Quality of Life * Advantages and Disadvantages of Being Mobile * Mobility Culture * Motility * Life Course Perspective * Gender and Job Mobility * Social Class and Job Mobility * Support and Coping Strategies * Recommendations for Politics and Economy * Job Mobility in Europe.

In den vergangenen 10-15 Jahren konnten grosse Fortschritte in der ope rativen Behandlung angeborener Fehlbildungen der Hand erzielt werden. Mehr und mehr wurde die bis dahin noch weit verbreitete Zuruckhaltung gegenuber chirurgischen Eingriffen aufgegeben. Wesentlichen Anstoss zu die ser Entwicklung gab, zumindest im deutschsprachigen Raum, die Thalido mid-Katastrophe (1959-1962), in deren Verlauf eine uberaus grosse Anzahl von Kindern mit Schaden an den oberen Gliedmassen zur Welt kam. Die durchweg schweren, zudem sehr seltenen Deformitaten brachten eine Fulle von Problemen mit sich und stellten damit eine grosse Herausforderung an alle dar, die sich mit der Behandlung solcher Missbildungen befassten. Von hier gingen viele Impulse aus, die auf eine in Ausweitung begriffene Handchirurgie trafen und auf das Gesamtgebiet der Handfehlbildungen fort wirkten, mit dem sich gerade die Orthopadie seit jeher besonders eng verbun den fuhlte. Idee und Vorarbeit zum vorliegenden Atlas reichen bis zum Jahre 1964 zuruck. Seither wurden nahezu alle Operationen an missgebildeten Handen systematisch festgehalten: Von der Hautincision bis zum Wundverschluss fotografiert und regelmassig nachkontrolliert. So liegen dem Atlas Erfahrun gen von mehr als tausend eigenen Eingriffen zugrunde. Das Buch ist aus der Praxis fur die Praxis geschrieben; es moechte dem handchirurgisch Ratsuchenden eine Entscheidungshilfe fur sein Vorgehen und eine moeglichst umfassende, praxisnahe Operationsanleitung geben. Aus dieser Absicht ergaben sich fur die Zusammenstellung und den Aufbau des Atlas bestimmte Grundsatze: Es sollten nur Operationsmethoden Eingang finden, die sich bei uns bewahrt haben. Die kritische Beurteilung langfristiger Ergebnisse war hier fur ausschlaggebend.

Mit einem hohen Pro-Kopf-Verbrauch von uber 101 Alkohol pro Jahr zahlt Deutschland immer noch zu den Spitzenreitern bei den Landern mit dem meisten Alkoholkonsum, auch wenn hier seit den 90er Jahren eine kontinu ierliche Abnahme zu verzeichnen ist. Die negativen Auswirkungen des uberhohten Konsums, besonders des langfristigen und chronischen Ge brauchs, zeichnen sich in allen fur die Personlichkeit wichtigen Bereichen ab: Korperliche, soziale und psychologische Beeintrachtigungen sind die Fol ge. Die wesentlichen alkoholinduzierten Storungen und Folgeerkrankungen wurden anhand der in den modernen Diagnosesystemen, DSM-IV und vor allem ICD-lO, enthaltenen deskriptiven diagnostischen Kriterien und ihrer Symptomatik vorgestellt und jeweils differentialdiagnostisch abgegrenzt. Unter den akuten Alkoholfolgestorungen ist die Intoxikation zu nennen, der besonders im Falle eines abnormen bzw. besonders erheblichen Rausch zustandes forensische Bedeutung zukommt. Bei den chronischen Storungen unterscheidet man den schadlichen Gebrauch von Alkohol und die Alkohol abhangigkeit. Die Abhangigkeit ist vor allem durch physische und psy chische Abhangigkeit sowie Toleranzentwicklung und Entzugssymptomatik gekennzeichnet. Chronischer Alkoholkonsum kann ferner zu neuropsychi atrischen Folgeerkrankungen fuhren wie alkoholinduzierten Psychosen, ko gnitiven Storungen (Wernicke-Korsakow-Syndrom, Demenz) und weiteren Personlichkeits- oder Verhaltensstorungen. Die Beurteilung der Schuldfahigkeit 4 bei akuter Alkoholintoxikation und Alkoholabhangigkeit KLAUS FOERSTER und MARTIN LEONHARDT 4. 1 Allgemeine und kriminologische Aspekte . 55 4. 2 Einschatzung der Alkoholeffekte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 4. 3 Bedeutung des Blutalkoholgehaltes . 57 4. 4 Alkoholabhangigkeit? . 59 4. 5 Terminologische Probleme . 59 4. 6 Einschatzung der Taterpersonlichkeit . 61 4. 7 Praktisches Vorgehen bei der Schuldfahigkeitsbeurteilung . 62 4. 8 Einschatzung einer Erinnerungslucke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 4. 9 Beurteilung bei Alkoholabhangigkeit ."