Exploring a new territory in sport and ethics, leading authorities from the world of academia and sports administration represent voices from all sides of the 'gene doping' controversy, and provide discussions of key areas.
Exploring a new territory in sport and ethics, leading authorities from the world of academia and sports administration represent voices from all side...
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?
In most Western penal systems, recidivist criminals are punished more harshly than first offenders. The philosophical grounds for this response are however difficult to grasp. According to the retributive ideal, recidivists deserve harsher punishments, independently of the eventual effects of the recidivist premium on crime rates. Different notions of "desert" have been advanced in the literature to substantiate this claim. However, all of them have this problem in common: how to justify a harsher punishment of an offender on grounds of a past offence which s/he already paid for? According to...
In most Western penal systems, recidivist criminals are punished more harshly than first offenders. The philosophical grounds for this response are ho...