Andy Miah

University of Salford, School of Science, Engineering, and Environment, Faculty Member

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The Olympics

Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty

The Medicalization of Cyberspace

Genetically Modified Athletes: Biomedical Ethics, Gene Doping & Sport

Papers by Andy Miah

We Are the Media: Alternative Voices and Non-Accredited Media at the Olympic Games

Ambush Media & the Olympics

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Doping & the Child: Ethics for the Most Vulnerable Group

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Genetic Modification (GM) in Sport: Legal Implications

The Future of Musical Intelligence

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Human Enhancement: A Reply to Mehlman

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In: We are the Real-Time Experiment

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Inside the mind of a marathon runner

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New Media

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The London 2012 Social Media Olympics

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MEDIA2012: Media Blueprint for London 2012

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Introduction to 2012 Edition

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Genetic Selection for Enhanced Health Characteristics SCIENCE REPORT

This paper examines the UK regulatory framework and the ethical arguments surrounding the use of ... more This paper examines the UK regulatory framework and the ethical arguments surrounding the use of genetic tests, specifically considering how they would apply to selecting for enhanced health characteristics. It discusses the Human Genetic Commission reports on the use of genetic information more broadly, identifying the implied values and concerns arising from their conclusions. It argues that the HGC conflates the concepts of 'best' and 'enhancement' and this limits the persuasiveness of their moral stance against preimplantation genetic selection for nondisease characteristics. Subsequently, the paper develops a conceptual framework of ethical objections related to genetic tests and selection. In response, it is argued that there are good reasons to permit access to genetic tests (preimplantation and postnatal) on the basis that a) it will enable the accumulation of biocultural capital and b) the burden of proof deems prohibition to be unacceptable. In conclusion, a number of issues are described as unresolved, such as a lack of clarity over whether postnatal genetic tests should be considered medical interventions and the capacity of a national health care system to provide for enhancement choices. However, it is argued that neither of these factors creates insurmountable problems for the regulation of genetic tests for enhanced health characteristics.

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Open Source Protest: Rights, Online Activism, and the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

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The Olympics

Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty

The Medicalization of Cyberspace

Genetically Modified Athletes: Biomedical Ethics, Gene Doping & Sport

We Are the Media: Alternative Voices and Non-Accredited Media at the Olympic Games

Ambush Media & the Olympics

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Doping & the Child: Ethics for the Most Vulnerable Group

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Genetic Modification (GM) in Sport: Legal Implications

The Future of Musical Intelligence

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Human Enhancement: A Reply to Mehlman

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In: We are the Real-Time Experiment

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Inside the mind of a marathon runner

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New Media

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The London 2012 Social Media Olympics

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MEDIA2012: Media Blueprint for London 2012

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Introduction to 2012 Edition

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Genetic Selection for Enhanced Health Characteristics SCIENCE REPORT

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Open Source Protest: Rights, Online Activism, and the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

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Human Enhancement in Performative Cultures

Discussions about the ethics of human enhancements are often situated within the normative practi... more Discussions about the ethics of human enhancements are often situated within the normative practices of elite sports. Their appeal resides in the direct and tangible benefit that is afforded by utilizing enhancement technologies as a mechanism towards achieving greater cultural and economic capital. This measurable consequence of athletic enhancements is also of interest because it functions as a metaphor for understanding how broader systems of social organization would be affected by the widespread use of such technologies. This paper develops an overview and critique of the legislative structures on enhancement. Subsequently, a conceptual framework for understanding the role of technological effects in sport is advanced. Finally, two case studies (hypoxic chambers and gene transfer) receive specific attention, through which it is argued that human enhancement technologies can enrich the practice of elite sports rather than diminish them. It defends the use of human enhancements within society on the basis that we inhabit a performative culture comparable to sports, which values the greater efficiency of output that would be achieved by embracing such modifications. This efficiency principle need not imply that all human value be reduced to efficiency coefficients, but neither does it require that the pursuit of efficiency limits the capacity to value other social goods. Rather, one might treat human enhancements as a mechanism towards improving the health economy. The role of medical professionals is to enable access to the goods of human enhancement, in order to contribute to a more prosperous society. While this might not be sustainable initially on a state funded health care system, the likely reduction in health care costs that will arise by increasing greater resilience -as one type of human enhancement -provides a compelling case for the pursuit of research that can lead to the enhancement of humanity.

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Genetics, Bioethics & Sport

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How Do You Infuse Culture with the Olympics

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The Worth of the International Olympic Academy

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