Performance-enhancing technologies in sports : ethical, conceptual, and scientific issues /

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Imprint:Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
Description:xviii, 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8124892
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Other authors / contributors:Murray, Thomas H., 1946-
Maschke, Karen J.
Wasunna, Angela A., 1973-
ISBN:9780801893612 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801893615 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Contributors
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Historical and Cultural Context
  • 1. Putting Doping into Context: Historical and Cultural Perspectives
  • 2. The Context of Performance Enhancement: An Athlete's Perspective
  • 3. Reflections on the "Parallel Federation Solution" to the Problem of Drug Use in Sport: The Cautionary Tale of Powerlifting
  • 4. The Role of Physicians, Scientists, Trainers, Coaches, and Other Nonathletes in Athletes' Drug Use
  • 5. Performance-Enhancing Technologies and the Ethics of Human Subjects Research
  • 6. Toward an Understanding of Factors Influencing Athletes' Attitudes about Performance-Enhancing Technologies: Implications for Ethics Education
  • Part II. Conceptual Maps and Ethical Implications
  • 7. Ethics and Endurance-Enhancing Technologies in Sport
  • 8. Fairness in Sport: An Ideal and Its Consequences
  • 9. Annotating the Moral Map of Enhancement: Gene Doping, the Limits of Medicine, and the Spirit of Sport
  • 10. Genetic Enhancement in Sport: Ethical, Legal, and Policy Concerns
  • 11. In Search of an Ethics for Sport: Genetic Hierarchies, Handicappers General, and Embodied Excellence
  • Part III. current and future science
  • 12. Genetic Doping in Sport: Applying the Concepts and Tools of Gene Therapy
  • 13. Technologies to Enhance Oxygen Delivery and Methods to Detect the Use of These Technologies
  • Index