Doping in Sport: Global Ethical Issues

ISBN-13: 9780415352239 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 222 str.

Robert Butcher

Opis

Provides an analysis of the ethical dimension of performance enhancing drugs in international sport. This book reviews the literature in this complex field.

Spis treści

Notes on Contributors Series Editors' Foreword Introduction 1. Fair is fair, or is it? A moral consideration of the doping wars in American sport 2. Are doping sanctions justified? A moral relativistic view 3. Cultural nuances: doping, cycling and the Tour de France 4. On transgendered athletes, fairness and doping: an international challenge 5. Creating a corporate anti-doping culture: the role of Bulgarian sports governing bodies 6. Doping in the UK: Alain and Dwain, Rio and Greg – not guilty? 7. The Japanese debate surrounding the doping ban: the application of the harm principle 8. Doping and anti-doping in sport in China: an analysis of recent and present attitudes and actions 9. Anti-doping in sport: the Norwegian perspective 10. Ethics in sport: the Greek educational perspective on anti-doping

O autorze

Angela J. Schneider (The University of Western Ontario, Canada) (Edited by) ,  Fan Hong (University of Western Australia) (Edited by)