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During the past 30 years, the Study Group for the Problems of Osteosyn thesis (AO) has made decisive contributions to the development of osteo synthesis as a surgical method. Through close cooperation among special ists in the fields of orthopedic and general surgery, basis research, metallurgy, and technical engineering, with consistently thorough follow up, it was possible to establish a solid scientific background for osteosyn thesis and to standardize this operative method, not only for the more ob vious applications in fracture treatment, but also in selective orthopedics where hardly...

During the past 30 years, the Study Group for the Problems of Osteosyn- thesis (AO) has made decisive contributions to the development of osteo- synthesis as a surgical method. Through close cooperation among special- ists in the fields of orthopedic and general surgery, basis research, metallurgy, and technical engineering, with consistently thorough follow- up, it was possible to establish a solid scientific background for osteosyn- thesis and to standardize this operative method, not only for the more ob- vious applications in fracture treatment, but also in selective orthopedics where...

Taking a "cultural pragmatic" approach to meaning, the contributors suggest a new way of looking at the continuum that stretches between ritual and strategic action. They do so by developing, for the first time, a model of "social performance." This volume offers the first systematic and analytical framework that transforms the metaphor into a social theory and applies it to a series of facinating large-scale social and cultural processes--from September 11 and the Clinton/Lewinsky Affair, to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Willy Brandt's famous "kneefall" before the...