that came out yesterday
*Oscar Pistorius and the Future Nature of Olympic, Paralympic and Other
Sports*
/ Gregor Wolbring, /pp.139-160
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Oscar Pistorius is a Paralympic bionic leg runner and record holder in
the 100, 200, and 400 meters who wants to compete in the Olympics. This
paper provides an analysis of a) his case; b) the impact of his case on
the Olympics, the Paralympics and other --lympics and the relationships
between the --lympics; c) the impact on other international and national
sports; d) the applicability of the UN Convention on the rights of
persons with disabilities. It situates the evaluation of the Pistorius
case within the broader doping discourse and the reality that new and
emerging science and technology products increasingly generate internal
and external human bodily enhancements that go beyond the
species-typical, enabling more and more a culture of increasing demand
for, and acceptance of modifications of the human body (structure,
function, abilities) beyond its species-typical boundaries and the
emergence of new social concepts such as transhumanism and the
transhumanisation of ableism.
http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed/issue5-1.asp
Cheers
Gregor
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Dr. Gregor Wolbring
webpage: http://www.bioethicsanddisability.org
biweekly column The Choice is Yours: http://www.innovationwatch.com/commentary_choiceisyours.htm
NanoBioInfoCognoSynbio Blog:http://wolbring.wordpress.com/
My other articles http://www.bioethicsanddisability.org/articles.htm
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Starting August 2008 Assistant Professor, University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, Dept of Community Health Sciences, Program in Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies;
Till August 2008 Research Scientist, Biochemistry, University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, Dept of Medical Biochemistry;
Founding Member and Affiliated Scholar, Center for Nanotechnology and Society at Arizona State University, USA
Part Time Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Canada
Adjunct Faculty Critical Disability Studies York University Canada
Member, International editorial advisory board, Journal: Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology http://www.bepress.com/selt/editorialboard.html
Member CAC/ISO - Canadian Advisory Committees for the International Organization for Standardization, section TC229 Nanotechnologies
PACT senior research consultant for the Science & Technology Foresight directorate of the Office of the National Science Advisor, Government of Canada
Former Member of the Executive of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO (2003-2007, term maxed out)
Chair: Disabled People's International Bioethics Taskforce
Chair: Foresight taskforce of the International Disability Caucus of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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