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Bioethics
Bioethics is loosely defined as the study of ethical issues related to biology. Close links can be found with medical ethics and environmental ethics, all of which fall broadly within the realm of applied ethics. Of particular interest are moral philosophical questions that have social or practical implications for health care and applied science.This page gives an outline of what I read and follow in the area of bioethics.

Recommended Reading

American Journal of Bioethics /
Bioethics /
Biology and Philosophy /
Bulletin of Medical Ethics /
Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics /
Culture, Medicine, and Psychatry /
Genomics, Society and Policy /
|Hastings Center Report /
Institutional Review Board /
Issues in Medical Ethics /
J Bioethical Inquiry /
J Clinical Ethics /
J Law, Medicine and Ethics /
J Medical Ethics /
J Medical Ethics and Bioethics /
J Medical Humanities /
J Medicine and Philosophy /
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal /
Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy /
Monash Bioethics Review /
New Genetics and Society /
New Review of Bioethics /
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics /

 

Recommended Links

Bioethics Port /
Bioethics Blog /
Bioethics Today /
Bioethics Web
/
Biotechnology and Genetics News /
Blog.Bioethics (AJOB) /
Center for Bioethics and Culture Network /
Ethics & British Abortyion Law /
Genetics and Society /
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies /
The Hastings Center /
The Human Genome, Wellcome Trust /
International Association of Bioethics /
International Society of Bioethics /
Kennedy Institute of Ethics /
Medical Law and Ethics Resources /
Nuffield Council on Bioethics /
PEALS /
Posthumanisms /
UNESCO International Bioethics Committee /
Women's Bioethics /
Yale Bioethics /

 

Friends who fit here...

William Sims Bainbridge / Nick Bostrom / Donald Bruce / Ruth Chadwick / Mark Anthony Cutter / Robin Downie / Andrew Edgar / Carl Elliott / Bert Gordijn / Jozef Glasa / Soren Holm / James Hughes / Eric Juengst / Glen McGee / Mike McNamee / Christian Munthe / Thomas H. Murray / Erik Parens / Rebecca Roache / Julian Savulescu / Claudio Tamburrini / Richard Twine / Angela Wasunna /

 

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, July 31) Inside the mind of a Marathon man, Nature, 454, in press.

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
         
Brussels, Belgium i (May, 2008)
The ethical and philosophical aspects of enhancement medicine.
  London, UK i (May, 2008)
New Media and the Olympics, Olympic legacy conference, University of Greenwich.
  Liverpool, UK i (April, 2008)
The Future of the Mind,
FACT Human Futures.
         
Oxford, UK a (Mar, 2008)
Olympic Legacies, St Anthony's College, Oxford University.
  London, UK i (Feb, 2008)
Royal College of Art, Lecture for Design Interactions, Emerging Cultures of Nanotechnology
  London, UK i (Feb, 2008)
Royal College of Art, AHRC Seminar on Art & Design in Human Enhancement [brief].
         
Liverpool, UK a (Feb, 2008)
SK-interfaces conference, FACT.
  Liverpool, UK i (Feb, 2008)
Human Futures: What is the future of the body? Artists' seminar in advance of the SK-interfaces meet, @ FACT.
  London, UK i (Jan, 2008)
London Metropolitan University, New Media @ the Olympics.
 
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