Description
Book SynopsisThis frank discussion of doping in sports includes accounts by former elite athletes and offers an illuminating exchange over the meaning and value of natural talents and genetic hierarchies and the essence of fair competition.
Trade ReviewA fascinating book for those interested in sports studies, for athletes and other sport professionals, and even for armchair quarterbacks... Highly recommended. Choice 2010
Table of ContentsList of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Historical and Cultural Context
Chapter 1. Putting Doping into Context: Historical and Cultural Perspectives
Chapter 2. The Context of Performance Enhancement: An Athlete's Perspective
Chapter 3. Reflections on the "Parallel Federation Solution" to the Problem of Drug Use in Sport: The Cautionary Tale of Powerlifting
Chapter 4. The Role of Physicians, Scientists, Trainers, Coaches, and Other Nonathletes in Athletes' Drug Use
Chapter 5. Performance-Enhancing Technologies and the Ethics of Human Subjects Research
Chapter 6. Toward an Understanding of Factors Influencing Athletes' Attitudes about Performance-Enhancing Technologies: Implications for Ethics Education
Part II: Conceptual Maps and Ethical Implications
Chapter 7. Ethics and Endurance-Enhancing Technologies in Sport
Chapter 8. Fairness in Sport: An Ideal and Its Consequences
Chapter 9. Annotating the Moral Map of Enhancement: Gene Doping, the Limits of Medicine, and the Spirit of Sport
Chapter 10. Genetic Enhancement in Sport: Ethical, Legal, and Policy Concerns
Chapter 11. In Search of an Ethics for Sport: Genetic Hierarchies, Handicappers General, and Embodied Excellence
Part III: Current and Future Science
Chapter 12. Genetic Doping in Sport: Applying the Concepts and Tools of Gene Therapy
Chapter 13. Technologies to Enhance Oxygen Delivery and Methods to Detect the Use of These Technologies
Index
