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Is digital health care more equitable? The framing of health inequalities within England's digital health policy 2010–2017 (2019)
Journal Article
Rich, E., Miah, A., & Lewis, S. (2019). Is digital health care more equitable? The framing of health inequalities within England's digital health policy 2010–2017. Sociology of Health and Illness, 41(S1), 31-49. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12980

Informed by a discourse analysis, this article examines the framing of equity within the UK's digital health policies between 2010 and 2017, focusing on England's development of NHS Digital and its situation within the UK Government's wider digital s... Read More about Is digital health care more equitable? The framing of health inequalities within England's digital health policy 2010–2017.

SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts (2019)
Book
Aarons, T., Abduljawad, S. A. S., Aboelkheir, A., Addis, M. C., Adeboye, O., Adeniyi, I. A., …Yusup, N. H. (2019). E. M. Barnes, D. Greensmith, M. Griffiths, U. Hurley, T. Ireland, C. Starbuck, …D. Whitnall (Eds.), SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts. Salford, UK: University of Salford

Welcome to the Book of Abstracts for the 2019 SPARC conference. This year we not only celebrate the work of our PGRs but also our first ever Doctoral School Best Supervisor awards, which makes this year’s conference extra special. Once again we have... Read More about SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts.

Enhancing evolution : the transhuman case for gene doping (2019)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2019). Enhancing evolution : the transhuman case for gene doping. In J. Lightfoot, M. Hubal, & S. Roth (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Exercise Systems Genetics (463-474). Abingdon, UK: Routledge

SPARC 2018 Internationalisation and collaboration : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts (2018)
Book
Abdu, Y., Abduljawad, S., Abdullahi, R., Abraham, A., Adamu, H., Adeleke, A., …Usman, B. (2018). T. Ireland (Ed.), SPARC 2018 Internationalisation and collaboration : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts. Salford, UK: University of Salford

Welcome to the Book of Abstracts for the 2018 SPARC conference. This year we not only celebrate the work of our PGRs but also the launch of our Doctoral School, which makes this year’s conference extra special. Once again we have received a tremendou... Read More about SPARC 2018 Internationalisation and collaboration : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts.

Nanoethics, science communication, and a fourth model for public engagement (2017)
Journal Article
Miah, A. (2017). Nanoethics, science communication, and a fourth model for public engagement. NanoEthics, 11(2), 139-152. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-017-0302-9

This paper develops a fourth model of public engagement with science, grounded in the principle of nurturing scientific agency through online participatory bioethics. It argues that social media is an effective device through which to enable such eng... Read More about Nanoethics, science communication, and a fourth model for public engagement.

Mobile, wearable and ingestible health technologies : towards a critical research agenda (2016)
Journal Article
Rich, E., & Miah, A. (2017). Mobile, wearable and ingestible health technologies : towards a critical research agenda. Health Sociology Review, 26(1), 84-97. https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2016.1211486

In this article, we review critical research on mobile and wearable health technologies focused on the promotion of ‘healthy lifestyles’. We begin by discussing key governmental and policy interests which indicate a shift towards greater digital inte... Read More about Mobile, wearable and ingestible health technologies : towards a critical research agenda.

Sports (2015)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2015). Sports. In H. Have (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics (1-11). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_399-1

This chapter explores the relationship between bioethics and sport ethics, which changed dramatically in the early 2000 when the genetics era generated a series of new questions about the ends of sport and how they would interface more widely with a... Read More about Sports.

Human enhancement in sports (2015)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2015). Human enhancement in sports. In W. Bainbridge, & M. Roco (Eds.), Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence (1-13). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04033-2_85-1

This chapter examines the range of sciences and technologies that converge around sports and the implications of this for issues of fairness and ethics. First, it outlines some of the recent scientific developments that speak to the convergence of di... Read More about Human enhancement in sports.

Understanding digital health as public pedagogy : a critical framework (2014)
Journal Article
Rich, E., & Miah, A. (2014). Understanding digital health as public pedagogy : a critical framework. Societies, 4(2), 296-315. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc4020296

This paper argues on behalf of a public pedagogy approach to developing a critical understanding of digital health technologies. It begins by appraising the hitherto polarised articulations of digital innovation as either techno-utopian or techno-dys... Read More about Understanding digital health as public pedagogy : a critical framework.

Bioart (2014)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2014). Bioart. In R. Ranisch, & S. Sorgner (Eds.), Post- and transhumanism : an introduction (227-240). Berlin: Peter Lang

This chapter makes explicit the association of certain art forms and art works to trans- and posthumanist ideas, which have become constitutive of the political, cultural and philosophical differences and similarities that exist between these conc... Read More about Bioart.

The Olympic movement and new media (2014)
Book
Miah, A., Belousov, L., & Zolotarev, A. (2014). The Olympic movement and new media. Moscow: Russian International Olympic University

This book is devoted to the trends in the development of digital media and their impact on coverage of the Olympic Games and the promotion of Olympic values. The research for the book was carried out through content collection and analysis of social... Read More about The Olympic movement and new media.

Spinal cord injury in Saudi Arabia : characteristics, bone mineral density, and functional electrical stimulation for upright mobility (1999)
Thesis
AboAbat, A. Spinal cord injury in Saudi Arabia : characteristics, bone mineral density, and functional electrical stimulation for upright mobility. (Thesis). Salford : University of Salford

A nation-wide SCI survey was conducted for the first time in Saudi Arabia. It showed that the current situation and characteristic features of SCI patients was significantly different from that in other countries and there is deficiency in medical an... Read More about Spinal cord injury in Saudi Arabia : characteristics, bone mineral density, and functional electrical stimulation for upright mobility.