Athletic enhancement, human nature and ethics : threats and opportunities of doping technologies /

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Imprint:	Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2013.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine, 1567-8008 ; v.52 International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ; v.52.
Subject:	Doping in sports -- Moral and ethical aspects. Medical ethics. Medical ethics.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9849120

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Other authors / contributors:	Tolleneer, J. (Jan) Sterckx, Sigrid. Bonte, Pieter.
ISBN:	9789400751019 (electronic bk.) 940075101X (electronic bk.) 9789400751002
Notes:	Includes author index.
Summary:	The book provides an in-depth discussion on the human nature concept from different perspectives and from different disciplines, analyzing its use in the doping debate and researching its normative overtones. The relation between natural talent and enhanced abilities is scrutinized within a proper conceptual and theoretical framework: is doping to be seen as a factor of the athlete's dehumanization or is it a tool to fulfill his/her aspirations to go faster, higher and stronger? Which characteristics make sports such a peculiar subject of ethical discussion and what are the, both intrinsic and extrinsic, moral dangers and opportunities involved in athletic enhancement? This volume combines fundamental philosophical anthropological reflection with applied ethics and socio-cultural and empirical approaches. Furthermore it presents guidelines to decision- and policy-makers on local, national and international levels.

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