Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book captures key arguments and questions in the debate on sport and doping. It consists of essays with a common theme of referencing sport enhancement ethics to examine the ethics of human enhancement, both generally and on the specific issue of cognitive enhancement. The book is a collection of essays on various forms of human enhancement: their discussion on the ends of a flourishing life and of its foundations, such as medicine and morality, and the appropriate means to achieve these ends, may hold significance for the ethics of sport enhancement. It provides a brief description of the essays, and the common themes that run through their claims and arguments. Thomas Murray’s essay “The Coercive Power of Drugs in Sports” looks at the ethical implications of allowing doping in the inherently coercive environment of elite sport.