Genetic technology and sport : ethical questions /
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| Author / Creator: | Tamburrini, Claudio Marcello. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2005. |
| Description: | xii, 223 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ethics and sport |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6250750 |
Table of Contents:
- Notes on contributors
- Series editors' preface
- Introduction: the life sciences and the ethos of sport
- Part I. The state of the art
- 1. The international anti-doping policy and its implementation
- 2. The basics of gene doping
- 3. Genetic enhancement of athletic performance
- 4. Gene doping: the shape of things to come
- Part II. The genetic enhancement of athletes
- 5. Genetic engineering and elitism in sport
- 6. What's wrong with admiring athletes and other people?
- 7. Educational or genetic blueprints, what's the difference?
- 8. Sport and genetics: moral and educational considerations regarding 'athletic predestination'
- Part III. Genetic testing of athletes
- 9. Ethical aspects of controlling genetic doping
- 10. Nutrigenomics, individualism and sports
- 11. Compulsory genetic testing for APOE Epsilon 4 and boxing
- Part IV. Genetic technology and the ethos of sport
- 12. Citius, altius, fortius ad absurdum: biology, performance and sportsmanship in the twenty-first century
- 13. The vulnerability thesis and use of bio-medical technology in sport
- 14. Sport, gene doping and ethics
- Part V. Gender equality and gene technology in sport
- 15. The genetic design of a new Amazon
- 16. Resisting the emergence of Bio-Amazons
- 17. Bio-Amazons - a comment
- 18. What is gender equality in sports?
- Index
