The ethics of sports : a reader / edited by Mike McNamee.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. The roots of sports ethics : games, play, sports : -- Construction of a definition / Bernard Suits -- Nature and significance of play as a cultural phenomenon / Johan Huizinga -- The game game / Mary Midgley -- Introduction to the appendices / Bernard Suits -- Games and the good : I / Thomas Hurka -- Games and the good : II / John Tasioulas -- Sport : an historical phenomenology / Anthony Skillen -- Part 2. Fair contests : rules, spoiling and cheating : -- From test to contest : an analysis of two kinds of counterpoint in sport / R. Scott Kretchmar -- The ends of the sports contest / Warren P. Fraleigh -- Fairness in sport : an ideal and its consequences / Sigmund Loland -- It's not cricket : underarm bowling, legality and the meaning of life / David Fraser -- The "hand of God"? / Claudio Tamburrini -- Spoiling : an indirect reflection of sport's moral imperative? / Graham McFee.

Part 3. Doping, genetic modification and the ethics of enhancement : -- The athletes' viewpoint / Verner Moller -- Why not dope? It's still all about the health / Andy Miah -- Doping under medical control : conceptually possible but impossible in the world of professional sports?/ Soren Holm -- Ethical aspects of controlling genetic doping / Christian Munthe -- Bionic athletes / Michael J. Sandel -- Whose prometheus? Transhumanism, biotechnology and the moral topography of sports medicine / Mike McNamee -- Part 4. Cultures of equality and difference : dis/ability, gender and race : -- Disability or extraordinary talent : Francesco Lentini (three legs) verses Oscar Pistorius (no legs) / Ivo Van Hilvoorde and Laurens Landeweerd -- Tackling murderball : masculinity, disabilty and the big screen / Michael Gard and Hayley Fitzgerald -- Against sexual discrimination in sports / Torbjörn Tännsjö -- On the definition of 'woman' in the sport context / Angela J. Schneider -- I'd rather wear a turban than a rose : a case study of the ethics of chanting / Carwyn Jones and Scott Fleming -- Racism, racist acts and courageous role models / Mike McNamee.

Part 5. Ethical development in and through sports : rules, virtues and vices : -- What moral educational significance has physical education? A question in need of disambiguation / David Carr -- Sport, ethos and education / Jim Parry -- Schadenfreude in sports : envy, justice and self-esteem / Mike McNamee -- Athletic virtue : between east and west / Heather L. Reid -- The project of a moral laboratory and particularism / Graham McFee -- Part 6. Commercialism, corruption and exploitation in sports : -- The degradation of sport / Christopher Lasch -- The moral case against contemporary American sports / William Morgan -- Moral philosophy out on the track : what might be done? / Adrian Walsh and Richard Giulianotti -- Sport and the systematic infliction of pain : a case study of state-sponsered mandatory doping in East Germany / Giselher Spitzer -- Sharp practice : intensive training and child abuse / Paolo David -- Part 7. Ethics and adventurous activity : -- The value of dangerous sport / J.S. Russell -- Adventure, climbing excellence and the practice of 'bolting' / Philip Ebert and Simon Robertson -- Kant goes skydiving : understanding the extreme by way of the sublime / Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza -- Can BASEjumping be morally defended? / Gunnar Breivik -- Sacred places / Raimond Gaita.

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