This volume presents articles which focus on the ethical evaluation of performance-enhancing technologies in sport. The collection considers whether drug doping should be banned; the rationale of not banning ethically contested innovations such as hypoxic chambers; and the impli…
Continuing controversy over gene therapies, stem cell research and the genetic modification of organisms demonstrates how new genetic research is forcing a reappraisal of our most established value systems. In the world of sport, leading authorities predict that the genetic engi…
"In a provocative analysis of sport ethics and human values, Genetically Modified Athletes imagines the brave new world of sport. Examining this new ethical issue at a crucial time in its theorisation, the book questions the very cornerstone of sporting and medical ethics, askin…
In this book, the author contends that, with every positive drug test, the credibility of modern elite sport is diminished. In this radical critique of current anti-doping policy and practice, he argues that the fight against doping is at heart nothing less than a battle to save…
In this book, the author contends that, with every positive drug test, the credibility of modern elite sport is diminished. In this radical critique of current anti-doping policy and practice, he argues that the fight against doping is at heart nothing less than a battle to save…
From Baron Pierre de Coubertin's original objectives in establishing the modern Olympic Games to the increasingly widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs during the Cold War to the 1998 drug scandal during the Tour de France and beyond, Steroids: A New Look at Performance-…
Sports fans or not, readers will be fascinated by this revealing examination of the pressures leading to the widespread use of steroids in sport and the negative, unintended consequences of their ban.
