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Professor Andy Miah, BA, MPhil, PhD, FRSA, is Chair in Ethics and Emerging Technologies in the School of Media, Language and Music at the University of the West of Scotland, Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, USA and Fellow at FACT, the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology , UK. He has a PhD in Bioethics & Cultural Studies and a Master degree in Medical Law. He is author of ‘Genetically Modified Athletes ’ (2004 Routledge), co-author of ‘The Medicalization of Cyberspace ’ (2008, Routledge) and Editor of ‘Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty ’ (2008, Liverpool University Press and FACT). Professor Miah is an Editorial Board member for Genomics, Society & Policy, Health Care Analysis and Associate Editor for New Media and Communications Technologies for Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology . He is currently writing a monthly column on ethics and technology for The Guardian .
In 2009, Professor Miah is working with FACT on ‘Climate for Change’ and ‘Abandon Normal Devices ’. He is also Chair of the Posthumanism theme at the International Symposium on Electronic Art , Belfast, for which he is also an Executive Committee member.
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Blogs
Andy Miah's Weblog
Biomedical Ethics Film Festival (20-22 Nov, 2009, Edinburgh)
Abandon Normal Devices (2009, Sept 23-27)
Human Enhancement: What should be permitted? (2009)
Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology
Social Media: Uses and Abuses (2009, June 26, Leicester)
Books
Human Futures: Art in the Age of Uncertainty by Andy Miah (Editor) (2008)
The Medicalization of Cyberspace by Andy Miah (2007)
Genetically Modified Athletes by Andy Miah (2004)
Sport Technology: History, Philosophy & Policy by Andy Miah (2002)
Articles
"Extraterrestrial Ethics" h+ Magazine
Jan 29, 2010
"Andy Miah, Sports Doping, and the Enhancement Enlightenment" h+ Magazine
Aug 8, 2009
"Make me a superhero: The pleasures and pitfalls of body enhancement" Guardian
May 5, 2009
"We’re All Activists Now" Guardian
Mar 21, 2009
"Prosthetic Surveillance: The medical governance of healthy bodies in cyberspace" Rich, E. & Miah, A. (2009) Surveilance and Society 26(1), 163-177
Mar 19, 2009
"Enhanced Athletes? It’s Only Natural" Washington Post
Aug 2, 2008
"Paralympics 2.0" Bioethics Forum
Jun 9, 2008
"Engineering Greater Resilience or Radical Transhuman Enhancement?" Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology 2(1)
May 1, 2008
"Letter to Utopia, v1.0" AndyMiah.net
Nov 26, 2007
"Genetic Selection for Human Enhancement" Journal of International Biotechnology Law, 4(6), in press.
Oct 17, 2007
"Is sport winning its war against drugs? No!" The Guardian
Aug 2, 2006
"Review: Doctor, Can You Fix My Broken Heart?" Journal of Medical Humanities 27(2): 127-129
Jun 1, 2006
"World Pro-Doping Agency" AndyMiah Wordpress
Apr 11, 2006
"Legalisation of performance-enhancing drugs" The Lancet
Dec 19, 2005
"Genetically modified athletes" the BA
Nov 23, 2005
"American Academy of Pediatrics on Doping" Bioethics and Sport
Nov 11, 2005
"Could Your Kid Be a Contender? Test Him" Bioethics and Sport
Oct 12, 2005
"Is ‘Gene Doping’ Wrong?" Project Syndicate
Sep 19, 2005
"Doping and the child: an ethical policy for the vulnerable" The Lancet 366: 874-876
Sep 10, 2005
"Bioethics and Sport in Barcelona" Bioethics and Sport
Aug 31, 2005
Upcoming Appearances
Andy Miah on “Posthuman Lifestyles: Has the future arrived?” Recent Multimedia
Andy on Start of the Week News
Andy Miah profiled in the UK’s Sunday Times Andy Profiled in The Scotsman Helen Jaques reviews Nature debate on H+ featuring Miah, de Grey and Warwick Andy, Russell and Heather at Andy’s Human Futures Conference Andy launches Human Futures Andy featured on gene doping at Olympics Miah Starts Upstream Nano to Encourage Foresightful Nanopolicy Andy’s Prolixity Andy gets yet another degree Technology pushes sporting boundaries Andy Miah to work with Euro-NBIC group Andy’s Notes on the Martin Conference Miah on the Torino Olympics Andy Miah covers doping in Torino Andy Miah in The Lancet (and the London Times) Andy Miah in The Globe and Mail 10x Human-Machine superperformance Past Appearances
Andy Miah on “Posthuman Lifestyles: Has the future arrived?” Andy Miah, Aubrey de Grey @ Human Enhancement: What should be permitted? Andy Miah @ Bionic Health Natasha Vita-More, Andy Miah @ Abandon Normal Devices Andy Miah @ International Symposium of Electronic Art Andy Miah on Climate Change and Nanotechology Andy @ Social Media Andy on “Bioart as Bioethics” Andy Miah on Human Evolution Andy Miah on “Nanotechnology and Postmodern Culture” Andy @ A European Approach to Human Enhancement de Grey, Miah, Warwick on Enhancing the Body Miah, Blackford @ Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty Andy @ The Role of the Arts in Democratic Policy Making Andy on ET Ethics @ The Futures of Space Exploration
Human Futures: Art in the Age of Uncertainty
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