Genetically modified athletes
Subtitle: biomedical ethics, gene doping and sport
By: Andy Miah.
Series: Ethics and sport
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Doping in sports -- Moral and ethical aspects; Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects; Medical genetics -- Moral and ethical aspects; Sports medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects; Doping in Sports -- ethics; Genetic Enhancement -- ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-202) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Anti-doping and performance enhancement. Introduction: Why genetics now?; title: Why not dope? It's still about the health; title: Forget drugs and the ideology of harmonisation; title: pt. 2. Conceptualising genetics in sport. What is possible? Imminent applications for the genetically modified athlete; title: Interests, politics and the ways of reasoning; title: pt. 3. The ethical status of genetic modification in sport. Humanness, dignity and autonomy; title: Personhood, identity and the ethics of authenticity; title: Virus, disease, illness, health, well-being ... and enhancement; title: Unfair advantages and other harms; title: pt. 4. Genetically modified athletes. Enhancing, altering or manipulating people?; title: Sport needs genetic modification; title: Conclusions and implications.