Genetically modified athletes : biomedical ethics, gene doping and sport / Andy Miah.

By:

Miah, Andy, 1975- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0415298792
9780415298797
0415298806
9780415298803

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

174.957 22

LOC classification:

RC1230 .M52 2005

Contents:

Pt. I. Anti-doping and performance enhancement -- Introduction : why genetics now? -- 1. Why not dope? : it's still about the health -- 2. Forget drugs and the ideology of harmonisation -- Pt. II. Conceptualising genetics in sport -- 3. What is possible? : imminent applications for the genetically modified athlete -- 4. Interests, politics and ways of reasoning -- Pt. III. The ethical status of genetic modification in sport -- 5. Humanness, dignity and autonomy -- 6. Personhood, identity and the ethics of authenticity -- 7. Virus, disease, illness, health, well-being ... and enhancement -- 8. Unfair advantages and other harms -- Pt. IV. Genetically modified athletes -- 9. Enhancing, altering or manipulating people? -- 10. Sport needs genetic modification -- 11. Conclusions and implications.

Review: "The book brings together sport studies and bioethics to challenge our understanding of the values that define sport. Without asserting that 'anything goes' in sports performance enhancement, it argues that being human matters in sport, but that genetic modification does not have to challenge this capacity."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-202) and index.

"The book brings together sport studies and bioethics to challenge our understanding of the values that define sport. Without asserting that 'anything goes' in sports performance enhancement, it argues that being human matters in sport, but that genetic modification does not have to challenge this capacity."--BOOK JACKET.

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