The Jews of early modern Marburg, 1640s—1800

This article examines Jewish household and family organization in a middle-sized German city, the Upper Hessian regional center of Marburg, the population of which ranged from 2500 to 6000 from the Thirty Years War to the end of the 18th century. Some general hypotheses about population development, household structure, and family life conveniently summarized by Toch [Toch, M. (1995). Aspects of stratification in early modern German Jewry: Population history and village Jews. In R. P. Hsia & H. Lehmann (Eds.). In and out of the ghetto: Jewish-Gentile relations in late medieval and early modern Germany (pp. 77-89). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press] serve as an organizational frame for the case study. In Toch's view, Jews' comparative wealth, as well as governmental restrictions on their settlement and marriage in central Europe, led to their having larger and more complex households than those of the Christian majority. While household enumerations over time confirm several of Toch's observations, especially the larger size of Jewish families, neither Hessian settlement policy nor local Marburg opposition prevented the Jewish minority of about 1% from keeping pace with general population growth. Moreover, Jews did not respond to their regulated living conditions and status as cultural outsiders with a family organization exhibiting remarkably more internal complexity than did Christian households.     

Ill-Treatment of Pain in the DSM-5

The just-published psychiatric diagnostic manual, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition (DSM-5), American Psychiatric Association (2013), has been lauded by its organizers (e.g., Regier, Kuhl, and Kupfer in World Psychiatry 12, pp. 92–98, 2013), but has been criticized on multiple grounds, as well. Several of its major diagnostic categories concern the area of psychological injury and law (e.g., tort cases involving posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury (TBI)). The one for chronic pain seems the one most greatly changed. The approach to chronic pain in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition, text revision (American Psychiatric Association 2000) and the DSM-5 are compared, leading to an alternative diagnostic criteria list partly based on the changes in the DSM-5. The DSM-5 should be used with caution in forensic assessments. This applies especially to the psychological injury patient, including the pain one, given the high stakes involved and the need for accuracy in assessment based on a reliable and valid diagnostic system. Future iterations of the manual should be improved in both these regards.     

Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir,by Kayano Shigeru

Abstract

In an Asahi Shimbun interview (31 May 1994) Kayano Shigeru (1923-), author of Ainu no ishibumi (An Ainu Memoir, 1980), recalls the fireside uwepekere or folktales told to him in the Ainu language by his grandmother and remarks that “since there's no written Ainu language, it's only the ear, not the eye, that matters.” Our Land Was a Forest, Kayano's autobiographical memoir, impresses the ear as well as the eye of the reader, as Ainu voices—seldom listened to in the past—reverberate between the lines of the original Japanese version and this English language translation by Kyoko Selden and Lili Selden.     

Motivating the uninvolved worker: some conceptual and empirical observations

This paper focuses on the issue of whether less involved workers are affected by conventional management practices such as group involvement, merit pay, and participative management. The findings suggest that while these management practices have some influence on the performance of uninvolved employees, that uninvolved employees are behaviorally distinct from more actively involved workers. As a consequence, it may be prudent for managers in the public sector to develop management practices and approaches specifically designed to stimulate low involvement employees.     

生态生存理念是生态文明建设的根本理念

生态危机只是加强生态文明建设的现实前提,树立生态生存理念,转变人们的生存方式,才是生态文明建设的根本理念。生态的基本含义是指一切生物的生存状态,生态生存是人的根本存在状态。生态生存理念是人类生存的根本理念。它包括生态存在的理念、生态生活的理念、生态生产的理念和生态消费的理念。生态生存理念的实践逻辑展开,是目的、手段与结果的有机统一。这就要求,必须以生态生存理念规范实践的目的：必须以生态生存理余规范经济手段：必须以生态生存理念的实践结果作为检验实践行为的标准．     

推进龙胜县民族文化与旅游融合发展探索

在当前国内外文化旅游市场竞争十分激烈的情况下,把民族文化旅游培育成为龙胜战略性的支柱产业,把龙胜建设成生态文化旅游强县,必须着力在民族文化与旅游产业融合发展上寻找突破口、寻求新对策,进一步探索两者互动发展、互融共赢的新模式。,     

重庆“两翼”地区大力发展乡村旅游的对策研究

该文在分析重庆“两翼”地区发展乡村旅游有利条件的基础上,重点阐述了重庆“两翼”地区缺乏乡村旅游专项发展规划,政府部门间协调机制不完善,发展水平低,经济效益不高,同质化严重,缺乏竞争力,发展规模小,基础设施薄弱,经营管理水平不高,发展粗放,从业人员素质低,服务质量差,宣传力度不够,营销渠道狭窄等八大问题,科学规划重庆“两翼”地区发展乡村旅游的总体布局,并在此基础上提出了相应的对策建议。     

侵权法中的严格责任——加拿大严格责任的适用现状

英美侵权法中,严格责任通常涉及一些超常的危险活动,且适用的范围也较广.现代加拿大侵权法中,严格责任并未扮演一个重要的、正式的角色.法官们固守侵权法过失责任,既利用过失侵权法对合理注意标准的自由裁量权,又希望在合适之处贯彻严格的注意标准,这样就形成了加拿大侵权法中严格责任的变形.     

高等医科院校社会工作实习探讨

医务社会工作作为一门建立于一套价值理念基础上的应用型专业,其实习教育方面长期以来倍受专业教育工作者的关注。目前我国医务社会工作实习处境的尴尬,亟须挖掘实习难以顺利进行的原因,以探讨我国医务社会工作实习的有效途径和模式。