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The Ethics of Sports Technologies and Human Enhancement
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ABSTRACT
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 implications of the prospects of human genetic engineering for the notion of sport as a development of ’natural’ talent towards human excellence. The essays demonstrate the significance of the principles of preventing harm, ensuring fairness and preserving meaning to appraise whether a particular performance enhancer is acceptable in the context of sport. Selected essays on various forms of human enhancement outside of sport that highlight other principles and concepts are included for comparative purpose. Sport enhancement provides a useful starting point to work through the ethics of enhancement in other human practices and endeavors, and sport enhancement ethics should track broader bioethical debates on human enhancement. As a whole, the volume points to the need to consider the values and meanings that people seek in a given sphere of human activity and their associated principles to arrive at a morally grounded and reasonable approach to enhancement ethics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Part I|66 pages
Preventing Harm
chapter 3|10 pages
Current anti-doping policy: a critical appraisal
chapter 4|11 pages
Doping Under Medical Control – Conceptually Possible But Impossible in the World of Professional Sports?
chapter 5|18 pages
Athlete or Guinea Pig? Sports and Enhancement Research
chapter 6|10 pages
Ethical Considerations in Paralympic Sport: When Are Elective Treatments Allowable to Improve Sports Performance?
part Part II|73 pages
Ensuring Fairness
chapter 7|9 pages
What’s Wrong With Genetic Inequality? The Impact of Genetic Technology on Elite Sports and Society
chapter 11|27 pages
S|S|S: Flopping, Klapping and Gene Doping: Dichotomies Between ‘Natural’ and ‘Artificial’ in Elite Sport
part Part III|119 pages
Preserving the Spirit of Sport
chapter 12|7 pages
Justifying anti-doping: The fair opportunity principle and the biology of performance enhancement
chapter 13|10 pages
Technology in Sport: Three Ideal-Typical Views and Their Implications
chapter 14|30 pages
Annotating the Moral Map of Enhancement
chapter 15|19 pages
May the Blessed Man Win: A Critique of the Categorical Preference for Natural Talent over Doping as Proper Origins of Athletic Ability
chapter 18|19 pages
The Spirit of Sport and the Medicalisation of Anti-Doping: Empirical and Normative Ethics 1
part Part IV|54 pages
Sport and Human Enhancement
part Part V|135 pages
Enhancement beyond Sport