Authors: C. Tamburrini, Torbjorn Tannsjo
ISBN-13: 9780415342360, ISBN-10: 0415342368
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: December 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Will the genetic design of athletes destroy sport … or will it lead to a new and extraordinary age of athletic achievement?
Exploring a new territory in sport and ethics, this edited collection contains some of the best new writing that has emerged from the debates concerning the uses of genetic technologies to improve sport performance. Issues covered include:
* gene technology and sports ethics
* genetic testing in sports
* gene technology and the sporting ethos
* gene technology and gender equality in sport.
This cutting-edge text is the first on the subject to analyze gender specific questions that arise from genetically modified sport and is likely to provoke further debate in the world of sport and bio-ethics.
Contributors include Lincoln Allison, Ruth Chadwick, Arne Ljungqvist, Andy Miah, Christian Munthe, Bengt Saltin, Angela Schnieder and many more.
Introduction : the life sciences and the ethos of sport | 1 | |
1 | The international anti-doping policy and its implementation | 13 |
2 | The basics of gene doping | 19 |
3 | Genetic enhancement of athletic performance | 32 |
4 | Gene doping : the shape of things to come | 42 |
5 | Genetic engineering and elitism in sport | 57 |
6 | What's wrong with admiring athletes and other people? | 70 |
7 | Educational or genetic blueprints, what's the difference? | 82 |
8 | Sport and genetics : moral and educational considerations regarding 'athletic predestination' | 91 |
9 | Ethical aspects of controlling genetic doping | 107 |
10 | Nutrigenomics, individualism and sports | 126 |
11 | Compulsory genetic testing for APOE Epsilon 4 and boxing | 136 |
12 | Citius, altius, fortius ad absurdum : biology, performance and sportsmanship in the twenty-first century | 149 |
13 | The vulnerability thesis and use of bio-medical technology in sport | 158 |
14 | Sport, gene doping and ethics | 165 |
15 | The genetic design of a new Amazon | 181 |
16 | Resisting the emergence of Bio-Amazons | 199 |
17 | Bio-Amazons - a comment | 205 |
18 | What is gender equality in sports? | 209 |