Will the genetic design of athletes destroy sport or will it lead to a new and extraordinary age of athletic achievement?
Exploring a new territory in sport and ethics, this edited collection contains some of the best new writing that has emerged from the debates concerning the uses of genetic technologies to improve sport performance. Issues covered include:
* gene technology and sports ethics * genetic testing in sports * gene technology and the sporting ethos * gene technology and gender equality in sport.
This cutting-edge text is the first on the...
Will the genetic design of athletes destroy sport or will it lead to a new and extraordinary age of athletic achievement?
For elite athletes, pain and injury are normal. In a challenge to the orthodox medical model, this book makes it clear that pain and injury cannot be understood in terms of physiology alone, and examines the influence of social and cultural processes on how athletes experience pain and injury. It raises a series of key social and ethical questions about the culture of 'playing hurt', the role of coaches and medical staff, the deliberate infliction of pain in sport, and the use of drugs.
This book begins by providing three different perspectives on the topic of pain and injury in...
For elite athletes, pain and injury are normal. In a challenge to the orthodox medical model, this book makes it clear that pain and injury cannot ...
For elite athletes, pain and injury are normal. In a challenge to the orthodox medical model, this book makes it clear that pain and injury cannot be understood in terms of physiology alone, and examines the influence of social and cultural processes on how athletes experience pain and injury. It raises a series of key social and ethical questions about the culture of 'playing hurt', the role of coaches and medical staff, the deliberate infliction of pain in sport, and the use of drugs.
This book begins by providing three different perspectives on the topic of pain and injury in sport,...
For elite athletes, pain and injury are normal. In a challenge to the orthodox medical model, this book makes it clear that pain and injury cannot ...
How will sport keep pace with current scientific and biological advances? Is the possibility of the 'bionic athlete' that far away and is this notion as bad as it might first appear? Is our fascination with sport winners fascistoid? Questions such as these and many others are posed and examined by the contributors to this volume. Some are sceptical of future developments in sport and demand radical reforms to halt progress, others are more optimistic and propose that sport should adapt to new advances just as other realms of the cultural sphere have to. Some of the topics examined...
How will sport keep pace with current scientific and biological advances? Is the possibility of the 'bionic athlete' that far away and is this noti...
Sexual exploitation in sport is a problem that has beset both male and female athletes privately for decades but which has only emerged as a public issue in the 20th and 21st centuries. This examination of the issue, integrates academic research, theoretical perspectives, and practical guidelines for performers, coaches, adminstrators and policy-makers. Key topics include: children's rights; moral panic; masculinity and power; making and implementing policy; and leadership in sport. The book draws on the personal experiences of athletes and those involved in sport and aims to represent an...
Sexual exploitation in sport is a problem that has beset both male and female athletes privately for decades but which has only emerged as a public is...
Fair Play in Sport presents a critical re-working of the classic ideal of fair play and explores its practical consequences for competitive sport. By linking general moral principles and practical cases, the book develops a contemporary theory of fair play. The book examines many of the key issues in the ethics of sport, including: * fairness and justice in sport * moral and immoral interpretation of 'athletic performance' * what makes a 'good competition' * the key values of competitive sport. The notion of fair play is integral to sport as we know and experience...
Fair Play in Sport presents a critical re-working of the classic ideal of fair play and explores its practical consequences for competitive s...
Fair Play in Sport presents a critical re-working of the classic ideal of fair play and explores its practical consequences for competitive sport. By linking general moral principles and practical cases, the book develops a contemporary theory of fair play. The book examines many of the key issues in the ethics of sport, including: * fairness and justice in sport * moral and immoral interpretation of 'athletic performance' * what makes a 'good competition' * the key values of competitive sport. The notion of fair play is integral to sport as we know and experience...
Fair Play in Sport presents a critical re-working of the classic ideal of fair play and explores its practical consequences for competitive s...
With every positive drugs test the credibility and veracity of modern elite sport is diminished. In this radical and provocative critique of current anti-doping policy and practice, Verner Moller argues that the fight against doping - promoted as an initiative to cleanse sport of cheats - is at heart nothing less than a battle to save sport from itself, located on the fault-line between the will to purity and the will to win.
Drawing on extensive and detailed case studies of doping in sport, and using a highly original blend of conceptual ideas from philosophy and...
With every positive drugs test the credibility and veracity of modern elite sport is diminished. In this radical and provocative critique of curren...
With every positive drugs test the credibility and veracity of modern elite sport is diminished. In this radical and provocative critique of current anti-doping policy and practice, Verner Moller argues that the fight against doping - promoted as an initiative to cleanse sport of cheats - is at heart nothing less than a battle to save sport from itself, located on the fault-line between the will to purity and the will to win.
Drawing on extensive and detailed case studies of doping in sport, and using a highly original blend of conceptual ideas from philosophy and...
With every positive drugs test the credibility and veracity of modern elite sport is diminished. In this radical and provocative critique of curren...
This volume is comprised of a range of essays by international scholars from philosophy, pedagogy and adapted physical activity who explore, critically, a range of ethical issues.
This volume is comprised of a range of essays by international scholars from philosophy, pedagogy and adapted physical activity who explore, criticall...
