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DECEMBER 2000

WEBCAMS: Thursday 7 December, 2000.

NOVEMBER 2000

THE VALUE OF NOTHING: Saturday 11 November, 2000

WHO WOULDN'T WANT TO BE A MILLIONNAIRE?:
Thursday 30 November, 2000

SEPTEMBER 2000

THIS IS WHAT IT IS ABOUT: Sunday 3 September, 2000

WHY DIVISION IS NECESSARY: Tuesday 19 September, 2000

AUGUS 2000

LIMITING HUMAN REPRODUCTION: Thursday 17 August, 2000.

RIGHTS, INTERESTS, AND CONSCIOUSNESS: Friday 25 August, 2000.

JULY 2000

WHAT IS WRONG WITH PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT IN SPORT?: Tuesday 4 July, 2000

THE IMPLICATIONS OF GENETIC COUNSELLING ON HEALTH: Thursday 6 July, 2000.

GETTING IN THE ZONE: Thursday 6 July, 2000.

WHAT IS REAL? HOW DO YOU DEFINE REAL?: Friday 7 July, 2000.

FEELINGS: Thursday 6 July, 2000.

INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTER ONE: Wednesday 12 July, 2000.

THAT'S NOT ME: Thursday 20 July, 2000.

JUNE 2000

NOTHING TO SAY: Thursday 1 June, 2000.

BEING UNTO ONE: Sunday 25 June, 2000.

APRIL 2000

RESPONSE TO TAMBURRINI: Wednesday 5 April, 2000.

LET'S ENGINEER WINGS!: Sunday 9 April, 2000.

MARCH 2000

SYNTHESISING TECHNOLOGY, SPORT AND BIOETHICS: Sunday 4 March, 2000.

WHAT KINDS OF ENHANCEMENT ARE WORTHWHILE TO PURSUE?: Sunday 12 March, 2000.

WHAT WOULD IT MEAN TO SAY THAT A HUMAN BEING HAS BEEN ENHANCED?: Sunday 12 March, 2000.

WHAT WOULD YOU PREFER, A BOY OR A GIRL?: Sunday 26 March, 2000.

MAKING A MARK - JUSTIFIABLE ENDS: Sunday 26 March, 2000.

THE MAKING OF TRADITION: Monday 27 March, 2000.

FEBRUARY 2000

THE OSTENSIBLE ANIMAL: Friday, 4 February, 2000.

WHAT IS HUMAN?: Friday 5 February, 2000.

NANDROLONE - CAN'T WE LET THIS ONE SLIDE?:
Thursday 10 February, 2000.

LET THEM TAKE DRUGS: Thursday 10 February, 2000.

SPORTING SIMULATORS - BETTER THAN LIFE?: Saturday 12 February, 2000.

JANUARY 2000

PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT: Sunday 9 January, 2000.

TO WHAT EXTENT/OUGHT...IS THIS THE QUESTION?: Sunday 9 January, 2000.

VIRTUAL SPORT: Monday 10 January, 2000.

WEBCAMS: Tuesday 11 January, 2000.

SUGGESTING CAUTION - A COP OUT: Saturday 15 January, 2000.

THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT & PROMOTING ABORTION:
Saturday 15 January, 2000.

ANY OTHER JOB: Sunday 30 January, 2000.

 

resarch interests

art&design // bioethics // china // cyberculture // ethics // law // medicine // olympics // outer space // politics // public engagement with science // science // sport // technology

just published

Miah, A. (2008, Aug 3) A Posthuman Olympics, Washington Post, in press.

Miah, A. (2008, July 31) Inside the mind of a Marathon man, Nature, 454,583-4.

Miah, A. (2008) Paralympics 2.0, Bioethics Forum, The Hastings Center.

Miah, A. (2008) Letter to Utopia: A Reply to Bostrom, Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology, 2(1).

Miah, A. (2008) Engineering Greater Resilience or Radical Transhuman Enhancement, Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology, 2(1).

my next event

Glasgow, Scotland i (30 Sept, 2008)
Our Cultural & Moral Commitment to Discover, Create, and Support New Life Forms, for LESS REMOTE: The Futures of Space Exploration: an Arts & Humanities Symposium, International Astronautical Congress, SEC, Glasgow, Scotland [abstract]

Beijing, China c (Aug, 2008)
Chair and Speaker for panel symposium on Emergent Journalistic Cultures at the Olympics, International Symposium on Olympic Research, Beijing National University and University of Western Ontario [outline].

Olympia, Greece i (July, 2008)
Supervising Professor, International Olympic Academy 16th Postgraduate Seminar [Lecture Outlines].

in press

Miah, A. (2008) Justifying Human Enhancement: The Accumulation of Biocultural Capital. In: Wint, S. Ethical Futures. The Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (RSA), London.

Miah, A. (2008) Playing Games with Artificial Intelligence. Hale, B. (Ed) Philosophy Looks at Chess . Open Court Press.

Miah, A. (2008). Posthumanism: A Critical History. In Gordijn, B. & Chadwick, R. 'Medical Enhancements and Posthumanity. Springer.

Miah, A. (2008) 'Blessed are the Forgetful': The Ethics of Memory Modification in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In Shapshay, S. (Ed) Bioethics Through Film, Johns Hopkins University Press.

 

just published

Zwart, N. H. (2007). "Genomics and self-knowledge: implications for societal research and debate." New Genetics and Society 26(2): 181-202.

Mitchell, C. B., E. D. Pellegrino, et al. (2007). Biotechnology and the Human Good. Washington, DC., Georgetown University Press.

Peters, H. P., J. T. Lang, et al. (2007). "Culture and Technological Innovation: Impact of Institutional Trust and Appreciation of Nature on Attitudes towards Food Biotechnology in the USA and Germany." International Journal of Public Opinion Research 19(2): 191-220.

House of Commons Select Committee, Science And Technology (2007) Report on Human Enhancement Technologies in Sport.

Koolstra CM, Bos MJW, Vermeulen IE. Through which medium should science information professionals communicate with the public: television or the internet? Journal of Science Communication 2006;5(3):1-8.

   

interviews

May, 2008
The technological enhancement of man, Danish Broadcasting Corporation

April, 2008
Evening Standard
Beijing 2008 Olympics and Protest

March, 2008
The Sports Factor, ABC Radio, Blogging at the Beijing Olympics

Feb, 2008
ESPN Magazine

flashback

 

recent places
         
Beijing, China c (5 Aug, 2008)
Chair and Speaker for panel symposium on Emergent Journalistic Cultures at the Olympics [outline]
  Olympia, Greece i (20 July, 2008)
Supervising Professor, International Olympic Acadmy 16th Postgraduate Seminar [Lecture Outlines].
  Leeds, UK c (16 July, 2008)
Ambush Media: Journalistic Freedom & Media Politics at the Beijing Olympics, Olympic Politics and Protest, Leeds Metropolitan University [abstract].
         
London, UK ia (4 July, 2008)
Research Cluster on Innovative Media for a Digital Economy: Health Industries Workshop, British Medical Association House.
  Liverpool, UK i (July, 2008)
Keynote, Body & Economy, London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, FACT.
  Chicago , USA ia (Jun, 2008)
2016 Olympic Bid conference, the contribution of the arts.
         
San Francisco , USA i (Jun, 2008)
Bioethics and Doping colloquium, St Mary's College.
  London, UK c (Jun, 2008)
with Ana Adi, Framing Beijing's Olympic Bid: Human Rights Advocacy Groups and Online Mainstream International Media, Changes and Challenges: China’s Media, University of Westminster, London, [abstract]
  Oxford, UK i (May, 2008)
Guest Seminar, St James Martin Institute for the 21st Century, Programme on Biomedical Ethics and Future of Humanity Institute
 
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