Eating disorders (EDs) have become a social epidemic in the developed world. This book addresses the close links between EDs and exercise, helping us to understand why people with EDs often exercise to excessive and potentially harmful levels. This is also the first book to examine this issue from an ethical and legal perspective, identifying the rights and responsibilities of people with EDs, their families and the fitness professionals and clinicians that work with them.
The book offers an accessible account of EDs and closely examines the concept of addiction. Drawing on a wide...
Eating disorders (EDs) have become a social epidemic in the developed world. This book addresses the close links between EDs and exercise, helping ...
The philosophy of sport has more to tell than about elite competitions, it is about people's everyday doing. Sport for all delivers material for a philosophy of practice, and of living democracy - as a phenomenology of people in movement.
The philosophy of sport has more to tell than about elite competitions, it is about people's everyday doing. Sport for all delivers material for a phi...
The study of sport is characterised by its inter-disciplinarity, with researchers drawing on apparently incompatible research traditions and ethical benchmarks in the natural sciences and the social sciences, depending on their area of specialisation. In this groundbreaking study, Graham McFee argues that sound high-level research into sport requires a sound rationale for one's methodological choices, and that such a rationale requires an understanding of the connection between the practicalities of researching sport and the philosophical assumptions which underpin them.
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The study of sport is characterised by its inter-disciplinarity, with researchers drawing on apparently incompatible research traditions and ethica...
This text examines the moral aspect of sports coaching and develops a powerful idea of what it ought to be, arguing strongly that coaches must be aware of the ethical implications of their acts.
This text examines the moral aspect of sports coaching and develops a powerful idea of what it ought to be, arguing strongly that coaches must be awar...
The issue of doping has been the most widely discussed problem in sports ethics and is one of the most prominent issues across sports studies, the sports sciences and their constituent disciplines. This book adds uniquely to that catalogue of discourses by focusing on extant anti-doping policy and doping practices from a range of multi-disciplinary perspectives (specifically ethical, legal, and social scientific).
With contributions from a world-class team of scholars and legal practitioners from the UK, Europe and North America, the book explores key contemporary issues...
The issue of doping has been the most widely discussed problem in sports ethics and is one of the most prominent issues across sports studies, the ...
This book examines the relationship between athletics and philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome focused on the connection between athleticism and virtue. It begins by observing that the link between athleticism and virtue is older than sport, reaching back to the athletic feats of kings and pharaohs in early Egypt and Mesopotamia. It then traces the role of athletics and the Olympic Games in transforming the idea of aristocracy as something acquired by birth to something that can be trained. This idea of training virtue through the techniques and practice of athletics is examined in relation...
This book examines the relationship between athletics and philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome focused on the connection between athleticism and virt...
An increasing number of sport disputes are being resolved by way of arbitration. This book critically examines the process and benefits of sport-specific arbitration as compared to litigation.
An increasing number of sport disputes are being resolved by way of arbitration. This book critically examines the process and benefits of sport-speci...
The study of sport is often thought of simply in terms of the sport sciences. This book explains how a phenomenological approach is capable of revealing the nature and meanings of sport in ways that are beyond the reach of the sciences - and how the very concepts required by sport science stand in need of philosophical explanation. The book has a 'didactic' intention - to present and discuss ideas and tools developed in the phenomenological tradition in order to illuminate issues in sport, in a clear and straightforward manner, so as to be understandable for those without any previous...
The study of sport is often thought of simply in terms of the sport sciences. This book explains how a phenomenological approach is capable of reve...
Sport and Art explores relationship of sport to art. It does not argue that sport is one of the arts, but rather that sport and art hold common ground. Both are ways in which humans confront philosophical challenges, though they do this through very different media. While art deploys sensual media such as paint or sound, sport is the pursuit of a physical challenge at which the athlete may fail. This is to propose, in an argument that has its roots in Hegel s aesthetics, that sport may be interpreted as a way of reflecting upon metaphysical and normative issues, such as the nature of human...
Sport and Art explores relationship of sport to art. It does not argue that sport is one of the arts, but rather that sport and art hold common gro...
