Humanities & Social Sciences

Menschen erweitern ihre Körper zunehmend mit Technik. Während Kritiker*innen diskutieren, ob dies zu wachsender Ungleichheit oder gar zur Entfremdung vom Humanen führt, erscheinen Wearables, Prothesen und Implantate im Alltag erstaunlich unspektakulär. Toni Garbe zeigt anhand einer Analyse medialer Darstellungen, wie heterogene Interpretationsangebote Technik entproblematisieren: Je nach Kontext wird sie zur Ko-Akteurin, zum Ersatzkörperteil oder zu einem gleichwertigen menschlichen Körperteil, kaum jedoch zu einem posthumanen Moment. In der Entproblematisierung technisch angereicherter Körper offenbaren sich so Kontinuitäten und Verschiebungen im Verhältnis von Mensch und Technik – und auch Gründe, warum wir trotz Technik am Körper nicht zu Cyborgs werden.

Sea water quality monitoring is extremely demanding and expensive. This results in the sea being largely under-sampled. To solve this OGS developed innovative technologies to be used within a citizen science approach. The simultaneous installation of remote sensing devices on boats of opportunity allows to build a monitoring infrastructure able to acquire, process, validate and display in real-time georeferenced data on a web portal. This work reports on a survey done in collaboration with the Moana 60 Lab initiative in the South Thyrrenian Sea.

This book deals with various facets of the human right to health: its normative profile as a universal right, current political and legal conflicts and contextualized implementation in different healthcare systems. The authors come from different countries and disciplines - law, political science, ethics, medicine etc. - and bring together a broad variety of academic and practical perspectives. The volume contains selected contributions of the international conference "The Right to Health - an Empty Promise?" held in September 2015 in Berlin and organized by the Emerging Field Initiative Project "Human Rights in Healthcare" (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg).

This volume contains the critical edition of the Latin elegies written by the most important poet of the Polish Renaissance, as well as a philological commentary . The comment, in particular, does not only refer to the collection of similia, but also analyses Jan Kochanowski’s ways of “imitatio” (imitation), underlining his extraordinary poetic skills as well as his vibrant and lively relationship with classical texts, which he reuses cleverly to satisfy his own needs for meaning.

This volume brings together two philosophical research areas that have been subject to increased attention: work regarding the unique character of having an experience and studies on the nature and powers of imagination. The importance of imagination seems to stand in tension with the assumed unique and irreplaceable role of experience in our lives. However, new arguments in various philosophical debates suggest that there is a need to examine how both areas of research interrelate and can enrich one another. The chapters in this volume examine whether the traditional accounts of experience and imagination need to be challenged. They are divided into thematic sections that discuss epistemological, ontological, normative, phenomenological, and intersubjective questions related to experience and imagination. Imagination and Experience is an essential resource for scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of mind, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and philosophy of psychology.

This is the first modern grammar and dictionary of Sherbro, an endangered Mel language spoken by ca. 50,000 people in Sierra Leone. The language faces significant pressure being abandoned in favor of the lingua francas Mende, Themne, Krio, and English. The previous grammar, while competently done, was written in 1921 as a handbook for missionaries. The autonym for the language is Bolom; however, speakers of the language while speaking Krio or English use “Sherbro” to refer to themselves and their language, so that practice is followed here. The grammar and dictionary are based on field data collected as part of a four-year research project (2016-2020), “Documenting the Sherbro Language and Culture,” funded by the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Documentation Programme. An archive of the project is permanently housed by the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR), www.elar-archive.org including the FLEx database, more than 30 glossed transcriptions and more than 150 recordings. This book is intended as a resource for linguists and Sherbro speakers, learners, and educators.

Hematology; Surgery; Cardiology

The essay is focused on Professor Meneghello’s modus docendi in England, through passages from his books, letters, testimonies from fellow friends and unpublished documents (lecture notes and outlines, syllabi, titles of tests, evaluations) preserved in Pavia.

"Our students in higher education want their studies to be useful and relevant to their future work career, personal development and social life. The authorities want students' achievements and completion of degrees to increase. Likewise, they expect the workforce to be optimally adapted to today's market and the uncertain demands of the future. They require students to be flexible, willing to learn and familiar with an abundance of general skills. A universal solution is to make studies more ""practical"". We -as teachers in HE - are challenged to improve students' abilities to reason and to prepare for practical applications, whether we are working on conventional theoretical topics in professional education or in continuing education. The authors of this book believe that the work of teaching with these expectations in mind is not just about professional practice, but about practical matters in a broad sense. Students are active in many ways, and they learn and work in the contexts in which they move, so the experiences and insights that they bring with them and then create by acquiring competences also make them practitioners themselves. One of our central educational tasks is to help them to recognize self-worth, that is, to see themselves in the mirror of knowledge, values and skills that higher education can offer them. The book contains examples of how students can work practically and in research, from R&D projects about learning to theoretical contributions. The examples also show how theory and practice can flow together in any teaching environment as well as in the construction of curricula and programmes. "

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Throughout the world, ‘3.11’ and ‘Fukushima’ are used as synonyms for catastrophe, despair and insecurity. In a search for sociocultural meaning in the catastrophic events of ‘3.11’, Wiebke Grimmig examines the role of contemporary Japanese artists in the process by which Japanese society has handled the effects of this triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami and atomic disaster) in Fukushima. She focuses on the emotional processing of these events by her respondents, including their biographical background, their economic concerns and the role of contemporary art in Japanese society. This anthropological research involves the analysis of in-depth interviews with contemporary artists from Tokyo, as well as from other locations along the east coast of Japan. This research was conducted over a 12-month period to elucidate the catastrophic events and effects of the ‘3.11’ disaster. In this work, Wiebke Grimmig examines how contemporary Japanese artists portray catastrophic events in terms of emotion, individuality, power, resilience, politics, economics and communication in their biographical narrative and their work. This doctoral thesis provides an important contribution to the socio-scientific field of disaster research.

How does money turn into political power today? As wealth concentrates at the very top, Rich Radicals shows how the wealthy are seeking to reshape societies. Using unique Finnish data, the books traces the top 0.1% and follows them into the worlds of family dynasties, corporate leaders and high‑flying entrepreneurs showing how wealth shapes moral conscience and drives radical politics. The book traces the rise of a global force: affluent groups driving societal change. The wealthy emerge as bold, well‑connected elites looking to shake up the Nordic social contract. If they succeed, a vital path to equality may be lost. Changing one society at a time, the wealthy may become a transformative force on a global scale—a development that deserves attention across societies.

This book seeks to pose and explore a question that sheds light on the contested but largely cooperative nature of Arctic governance in the post-Cold War period: how does power matter – and how has it mattered – in shaping cross-border cooperation and diplomacy in the Arctic? Each chapter functions as a window through which power relations in the Arctic are explored. Issues include how representing the Arctic region matters for securing preferred outcomes, how circumpolar cooperation is marked by regional hierarchies and how Arctic governance has become a global social site in its own right, replete with disciplining norms for steering diplomatic behaviour. This book draws upon Russia’s role in the Arctic Council as an extended case study and examines how Arctic cross-border governance can be understood as a site of competition over the exercise of authority.

employment; social policy; care; decentralization; service users; vouchers; welfare reform

With the scientific anthology Professional Developmental Mentoring for Individual and Collective Development, the Network for Professional Developmental Mentoring for Newly Qualified Teachers in Kindergarten, Primary and Secondary Education marks its more than 20-year history. Since 2003, the network's former and current participants and colleagues have published countless scientific articles, doctoral degrees, monographs and anthologies that have been of great importance for the development of the profession mentoring field in the entire education sector from kindergarten to higher education. The anthology presents key concepts related to mentoring and the transition from teacher education to become a professional teacher in kindergartens and schools. An insight is given into the historical development of follow-up and professional developmental mentoring for newly qualified teachers in Norway. Empirical research on mentoring programmes shows examples of further development of the programmes, and the knowledge base for the professional development mentoring field is challenged to contribute to discussion and further research. The anthology also presents a variety of possibilities, perspectives and theoretical approaches within the professional field related to mentoring in teacher education, professional development mentoring for newly graduates and the establishment and development of professional learning communities in kindergartens and schools. The anthology is mainly aimed at the teaching professions. mentors and mentoring educators but are also relevant for others who are interested in learning dialogues and the development of professional learning communities.