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Slide7: ethics bioethics medicine posthumanism Posthuman Medicine and Imagined Ethics For Ethics and Philosophy of Emerging Medical Technologies, Institut Borja de Bioetica, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain, August 2005.


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Slide9: The Future of Memory, June 2005 For Royal Institution of Great Britain. culture technology ethics cyberculture enhancement posthumanism


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Slide11: culture technology ethics sport cyberculture Virtual Realities, Computer Games and Sports A Book For MIT Press with Dr Dennis Hemphill (Aus)


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Slide13: culture sport spectacle Culture @ the Olympics: issues, trends and perspectives Academic Magazine due for publication in April, 2005 with Dr Beatriz Garcia http//www.culturalolympics.org.uk


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Slide15: culture technology ethics cyberculture medicine The Medicalisation of Cyberspace (2006) Book for Routledge, with Emma Rich, Loughborough, UK Centre for Girls’ and Women’s Health and Physical Education


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Slide17: Media spectacle Doping Xtreme sports cultures Technology in sport Olympic politics Celebrity Culture Case: LiveStrong Gender & sexuality Identity Videogames Cyber-Artists Case: Suicide Chat Life extension Body artists Cyber-politics Cyborg theory Aritificial intelligence Human enhancement Case: saviour sibling


Slide19: posthumanism dr andy miah Superhumans, mutants and monsters: Gene doping, bioethics and the posthuman game game But this is not the issue…


Slide20: | CYBORGS | TRANSHUMANS | POSTHUMANS posthumanism dr andy miah Superhumans, mutants and monsters: Gene doping, bioethics and the posthuman game game


Slide21: | CYBORGS | TRANSHUMANS | POSTHUMANS Chris Hables Gray (2002) Freedom to travel Freedom to electronic speech Right of Electronic privacy Freedom of consciousness (right to modify) Right to life/death Right to political equality Freedom of information Freedom of family, sexuality, gender Right to peace


Slide22: dr andy miah Superhumans, mutants and monsters: Gene doping, bioethics and the posthuman game Gene Transfer (AKA Gene Doping) “Superhumans” “Mutants” “Monsters” This is the anti-doping discourse and it relies on Graham’s literary roots on posthumanism Frankenstein’s Footsteps (Turney, 1998)


Slide23: http://bioethics-sport.blogspot.com Take into account the cultural discourse on genetics Emergence of anti-doping and its political economy Development of scientific ethics post WW2 The DNA Mystique (Nelkin & Lindee, 1995) This factors contextualise the ethical debate on gene doping, but they do not justify prohibition… dr andy miah Superhumans, mutants and monsters: Gene doping, bioethics and the posthuman game


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Slide25: So, what should be done about the Acknowledge that rulings about gene technology have the capacity to infringe upon individual freedoms Consider the changing role of medical technology in society, where lifestyle is a legitimate basis for accepting higher risks. Evaluate the test strategy of anti-doping and the possible negative consequences of pushing gene doping underground Grater synergy with non-sporting bioethical organisations Acknowledge the broader debate about humanness in sport, which is really what this is about


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