The Ethics of Sports : A Reader

ISBN-13: 9780415478601 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 520 str.

Mike J. McNamee

Opis

This collection of articles showcases the very best international scholarship in the field of sports ethics, and offers a comprehensive, one-stop resource for any student, scholar or sportsperson with an interest in this fascinating area.

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Part 1: The Roots of Sports Ethics: Games, Play, Sports  1. Construction of a Definition Bernard Suits  2. Nature and Significance of Play as a Cultural Phenomenon Johan Huizinga  3. The Game Game Mary Midgley  4. Introduction to the Appendices Bernard Suits  5. Games and the Good: I Thomas Hurka  6. Games and the Good: II John Tasioulas  7. Sport: An Historical Phenomenology Anthony Skillen  Part 2: Fair Contests: Rules, Spoiling and Cheating  8. From Test to Contest: An Analysis of Two Kinds of Counterpoint in Sport R. Scott Kretchmar  9. The Ends of the Sports Contest Warren P. Fraleigh  10. Fairness in Sport: An Ideal and its Consequences Sigmund Loland  11. It's Not Cricket: Underarm Bowling, Legality and the Meaning of Life David Fraser  12. The "Hand of God"? Claudio Tamburrini  13. Spoiling: An Indirect Reflection of Sport's Moral Imperative? Graham McFee  Part 3: Doping, Genetic Modification and the Ethics of Enhancement  14. The Athlete's View Point Verner Moller  15. Why Not Dope? It's Still All About the Health Andy Miah  16. Doping Under Medical Control: Conceptually Possible but Impossible Soren Holm  17. Ethical Aspects of Controlling Genetic Doping Christian Munthe  18. Bionic Athletes Michael J. Sandel  19. Whose Prometheus? Transhumanism. Biotechnology and the Moral Topography of Sports Medicine Mike McNamee  Part 4: Cultures of Equality and Difference: Dis/ability, Gender and Race  20. Disability or Extraordinary Talent: Francesco Lentini (Three Legs) Verses Oscar Pistorius (No Legs) Ivo Van Hilvoorde and Laurens Landeweerd  21. Tackling Murderball: Masculinity, Disabilty and the Big Screen Michael Gard and Hayley Fitzgerald  22. Against Sexual Discrimination in Sports Torbjorn Tannsjo  23. On the Definition of ‘Woman’ in the Open Sport Context Angela J. Schneider  24. I'd Rather Wear a Turban than a Rose: A Case Study of the Ethics of Chanting Carwyn Jones and Scott Fleming  25. Racism, Racist Acts and Courageous Role Models Mike McNamee  Part 5: Ethical Development In and Through Sports: Rules, Virtues and Vices  26. What Moral Significance Has Physical Education? A Question in Need of Disambiguation David Carr  27. Sport, Ethos and Education Jim Parry  28. Schadenfreude in Sports: Envy, Justice and Self-Esteem Mike McNamee  29. Athletic Virtue: Between East and West Heather L. Reid  30. The Project of a Moral Laboratory and Particularism Graham McFee  Part 6: Commercialism, Corruption and Exploitation in Sports  31. The Degredation of Sport Christopher Lasch  32. The Moral Case Against Contemporary American Sports William Morgan  33. Moral philosophy Out on the Track: What Might be Done? Adrian Walsh and Richard Guilianotti  34. Sport and the Systematic Infliction of Pain: A Case Study of State-Sponsered Mandatory Doping in East Germany Giselher Spitzer  35. Sharp Practice: Intensive Training and Child Abuse Paolo David  Part 7: Ethics and Adventurous Activity  36. The Value of Dangerous Sport J. S. Russell  37. Adventure, Climbing Excellence and the Practice of 'Bolting' Philip Ebert and Simon Robertson  38. Kant Goes Skydiving: Understanding the Extreme by Way of the Sublime Jesus Ilundain-Agurruza 3 9. Can BASEjumping be Morally Defended? Gunnar Breivik  40. Sacred Places Raimond Gaita

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Mike McNamee