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Photo taken at a Sydney underground station during the 2000 Olympics  
Sport Studies
My sudies of sport have been driven primarily by my interest to explore how technoogical innovation has affected a series of cultural practices. The literature in this area is diverse and well-establishd. These links provide some indication of what I'm reading.

Recommended Journals
American Journal of Sports Medicine /
Culture, Sport, Society /
International Review for the Sociology of Sport /
Journal of Sport and Social Issues /
Journal of the Philosophy of Education /
Journal of the Philosophy of Sport /
Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports /
Sociology of Sport Journal /
Sociology of Sport Online /
Sport, Education and Society /
Sport in Society, T&F /
Sport Management Review /
The Sport Journal /

 

Recommended Links
Genetically Modified Athletes /
Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles /
British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine /
British Philosophy of Sport Association /
Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport /
Drugs in Sports News /
European College of Sport Science /
Forum for the Analysis of Sport Technology /
Gender, Sport and Society Forum /
International Association for the Philosophy of Sport /
International Association for Sports Information /
International Council for Sport Science and Physical Education /
North American Sociology of Sport Society /
SIRC conference calendar /
SPORTIS /
Sport Science /
Sports Law /
Women's Sports Foundation /
World Anti-Doping Agency /

 

Friends who fit here...
David L. Andrews / Jerry Bingham / Kim Blair / Larry Bowers / Celia Brackenridge / Gunnar Breivik / Carlton Brick / Richard Budgett / Breeze Callahan / Dennis Campbell / Ellis Cashmore / Melissa Donais / Peter Donnelly / Andrew Edgar / Hong Fan / Warren Fraleigh / Peter Fricker / Norm Fost / Simon Gardiner / Alain Garnier / Andy Gibson / James T. Gray / Garry Green / Alun Hardman / Dennis Hemphill / Ivo van Hilvoorde / John Hoberman / Milan Hosta / Barrie Houlihan / Matthias Kamber / Larry Katz / David McArdle / Robin McKie / Thomas H. Murray / Danny O'Brien / Oliver Owen / Dawn Penney / Yannis Pitsalidis / Gertrud Pfister / Julian Savulescu / Amanda Schweinbenz / John Scott / Sally Shaw / Debra Shogan / Mike Silk / Amy Terriere / Gabriela Tymowski / Michelle Verokken / Garry Whannel /

 

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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