Andy Miah

Andy Miah is a Reader in New Media & Bioethics at the University of Paisley, Scotland and Fellow in the Envisioning the Future program for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He was formerly a Tutor in the Ethics of Science & Medicine in the Graduate School of Biomedical & Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Scotland. His research discusses human enhancement technologies and is informed by an interest in applied philosophy, technology, and culture. Miah has recently published in The Lancet, the Journal of Medical Ethics, CTHEORY, and Culture Machine. He has also written for leading newspapers, including The Observer and The Times.

In 2005, he was made a member of the Royal Institution of Great Britain and a fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He is frequently invited to give lectures on enhancement technology, and also interviews fortnightly for national and international media organisations, a detailed list of which can be found through his personal website. His past appearances include the flagship television news programmes in the UK (BBC, Newsnight), Canada (CBC, The National) and Australia (ABC, The 7:30 Report).

He is author of posthumanism.org.uk and an editorial board member for Genomics, Society & Policy and Health Care Analysis.

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Indicators of Esteems

• (2007) Marquis Who’s Who in the World, 24th Edition.
• (2006-) Lifeboat Foundation, Scientific Advisory Board.

Publications

• (2005) Animals and me, Padfoot Ed.

Books

• Genetically Modified Athletes: Biomedical Ethics, Gene Doping and Sport (2004, London and New York, Routledge) ISBN 0415-2988-06
  • Translation into Portuguese: Miah,A. (2007) Atletas Geneticamente Modificados. Phorte Publishers, São Paulo [Trans. Andrea Ramirez].
  • Approximately 15 book reviews: Times Higher Education Supplement (2005); The Lancet (2005)

• (with Eassom, S.B.) Sport Technology: History, Philosophy & Policy (2002, Oxford, Elsevier Science).

Selected recent refereed Journal Articles

Miah, A. (2005) Genetics, Cyberspace and Bioethics: Why Not a Public Engagement with Ethics? Public Understanding of Science 14(4), 409-421.

Miah, A. (2004) The Public Autopsy: Somewhere Between Art, Education, and Entertainment, Journal of Medical Ethics, 30, Dec, 576-579.

Miah, A. (2003) (e)text: Error…404 Not Found!, or the Disappearance of History, Culture Machine: The E-Issue, 5, [Available from: http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/Cmach/Backissues/j005/Articles/AMiah.htm]

Miah, A. (2003) Dead Bodies for the Masses: The British Public Autopsy & the Aftermath, CTHEORY: International Journal of Theory, Technology & Culture, Event-Scene, E119 [Available Online from: http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=363].

Miah, A. (2000) Virtually Nothing: Re-evaluating the Significance of Cyberspace, Leisure Studies, 19:3, 211-225 [ISSN: 0261-4367].

Miah, A. (with Rich, E.) (2006) Genetic Tests for Ability? Talent Identification and the Value of an Open Future, Sport, Education & Society, 11(3), 259-273.

Miah, A. (with Keyser, B. & Mauron, A.) (2005) Viewpoint: Legalisation of performance-enhancing drugs. The Lancet, Special Supplement on Sport & Medicine, Dec, 366, S21.

Miah, A. (2005) From Anti-Doping to a ‘Performance Policy’: Sport Technology, Being Human and Doing Ethics, European Journal of Sport Science, 5(1): 51-57 [ISSN: 1746-1391].

Miah, A. (2005) Doping & the Child: Ethics for the Most Vulnerable Group, The Lancet, Sept 10, vol.366, 874-876.

Miah, A. (2003) Genetic Modification (GM) in Sport: Legal Implications, Contemporary Issues in Law, Vol.6(3), pp.207-226 [ISSN: 1357-0374].

Miah, A. (2002) Genes, Sports, and Ethics: A Response to Munthe (2000), Research in Philosophy and Technology, Vol.21, 269-289.

Miah, A. (2001) Genetic Technologies and Sport: The New Ethical Issue, Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, XXVIII, 32-52 [ISSN: 0094-8705].

Miah, A. (2000) The Engineered Athlete: Human Rights in the Genetic Revolution, Culture, Sport, Society, Vol.3, No.3, 25-40 [ISSN: 1461-0981].

Selected national/international newspapers/magazines

Miah, A. (2007) Gene Doping: Performance Enhancement? The Biochemist, April.

Miah, A. (with Matthew Syed) (2006, Oct 18) Digital era taking fans closer to action, The Times, p.82.

Miah, A. (2006, Aug 2) Is sport winning the war on drugs? No. The Guardian, p.7.

Miah, A. (with Kayser, B. and Mauron, A.) (2006, Jan 17) En termes de sante publique, la guerre antidopage purrait bien etre un non-sens, Le Monde, p.3.

Miah, A. (2005) Is Gene Doping Wrong? Project Syndicate (distribution of 42,800,000)

Miah, A. (2005, Sept) Genetically Modified Athletes, Science & Public Affairs, Magazine of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

Miah, A. (2004, Aug 13). Why I believe…that genetic modification might be good for sport and society The Times Higher Education Supplement. London, p.14.

Miah, A. (2004, Aug 1). Genetically Modified Athletes in Athens? Bring them on. The Observer. London, p.9.