1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910953538703321

Autore

David A. Rosalie (Ann Rosalie)

Titolo

The pyramid builders of ancient Egypt : a modern investigation of pharaoh's workforce / / A.R. David

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, c1996

ISBN

1-134-74322-X

1-134-74323-8

1-280-33538-6

9786610335381

0-203-44261-X

0-203-27775-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Disciplina

932

Soggetti

Pyramid of Sesostris II (Lāhūn, Egypt)

Kahun (Extinct city)

Egypt Social life and customs To 332 B.C

Egypt Antiquities

Fayyūm (Egypt) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-255) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; The Geography and Historical Background; The Lahun Pyramid; The Towns of the Royal Workmen; The Site and its Excavation; Legal and Medical Practices, Education and Religion; Everyday Life at Kahun; The Foreign Population at Kahun; Last Years at Kahun; Analysis of Egyptian Pottery; The Chemical Analysis of the Kahun Metals; Kahun: The Textile Evidence; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

In Dr David's study, the builders of the pyramids are revealed as simple people with ordinary preoccupations: who worried about their families, grumbled about working conditions - and even planned a strike to improve them.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910958499603321

Titolo

Law and human genetics : regulating a revolution / / edited by Roger Brownsword, W.R. Cornish, Margaret Llewelyn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; Portland : , : Hart Publishing, , 1998

ISBN

9786611041793

9781474200387

1474200389

9781281041791

1281041793

9781847312969

1847312969

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 pages)

Disciplina

344/.04196

Soggetti

Genetic disorders

Human chromosome abnormalities - Diagnosis - Law and legislation

Medical genetics - Law and legislation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Half Title Page; Title Page; Title verso; Contents; Human Genetics and the Law: Regulating a Revolution; A Commission for the 21st Century; Human Genetics: The New Panacea?; Regulation as Facilitation: Negotiating the Genetic Revolution; Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Human Genetics; Interventions in the Human Genome; Family Law and Genetics; Insurance and Genetics: The Current State of Play; 'I Blame the Parents': Fitting New Genes in Old Criminal Laws; The Inscription of Life in Law: Genes, Patents, and Bio-politics; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"As developments in human genetics proceed apace,the regulation of genetic research and its applications is set to represent one of the major legal challenges of the next century. At every turn - in the fields of medicine and commerce, in insurance and employment, in the family and even in the criminal justice system - advances in human genetics threaten to transform our understanding of ourselves and the basis



upon which we relate to one another. This special issue of the Modern Law Review addresses a range of key issues - conceptual, ethical, political and practical - arising from the regulatory challenge confronting the law in the face of the genetic revolution."--Bloomsbury Publishing.