This article describes unresolved challenges of regulation of nanoparticles, mainly from a European perspective. The authors shall argue that the presently dominant strategy, which in this article will be called “filling in the regulatory gaps”, is unsatisfactory with respect to…

Background: Research into the impact of personal health record-enabled consumer systems is still in its infancy.  Little is known about effective designs of web-based personally controlled health management system (PCHMS), how people use these systems in their real-life settings, nor…

This article considers factors that limit or exclude civil society involvement in the regulatory process for nanotechnologies by critically examining an attempt to mount a public-interest legal challenge against the UK Health and Safety Executive for failing to properly enforce…

This Special Issue devoted to 'The legal regulation of nanotechnologies' draws together contributions from some of the leading commentators in their respective fields. The Special Issue canvasses some of the most pressing philosophical, ethical and regulatory questions currently being debated…

China’s rapid economic transformation over the last 3 decades has been remarkable both in terms of its speed and scale. As the Economist magazine reported recently, ‘In China each person now produces four times as much as in the early…

In ancient mentions of gifts to the gods, a number of terms suggest motives, and a listing of these can be exploited to assess religious intentions and mentalities.

Philo in his biographies of biblical figures anticipates the moral and anecdotal cast of Plutarch’s Lives, for both were influenced by the Stoicism that they encountered in Rome.

The extant odes provide no evidence for the common view that some must have first been performed at Panhellenic sanctuaries immediately after the victory.

The phenomenon of selective reading and copying of Thucydides’ History, attested to by authors and papyri, reflects the teaching and the practice of rhetoric in the Imperial age.

The lamp, in the shape of a mummified Osiris, has only a few parallels; it contains inscriptions with magical formulas that can be paralleled in other magical texts.