ABSTRACT
The ethics of sports medicine is an important emerging area within biomedical ethics. The professionalization of medical support services in sport and continuing debates around issues such as performance-enhancing technologies or the health and welfare of athletes mean that all practitioners in sport, as well as researchers with an interest in sports ethics, need to develop a clear understanding of the ethical aspects of the sport–medicine nexus.
This timely collection of articles explores the conceptual and practical issues that shape and define ethics in sports medicine. Examining central topics such as consent, confidentiality, pain, doping and genetic technology, this book establishes an important baseline for future academic and professional work in this area.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|27 pages
Sports medicine as an ethical practice
chapter 3|12 pages
Whose Prometheus?
part II|29 pages
Professional ethics and sports medicine
part III|46 pages
Ethically significant concepts in sports medicine
chapter 10|13 pages
Investigating eating disorders in elite gymnasts
part IV|41 pages
Doping and the ethics of performance enhancement
chapter 13|15 pages
The spirit of sport and themedicalization of anti-doping
part V|26 pages
Genetics and the future of sports medicine