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Doping in sports -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Drug abuse.
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Ethics.
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Sports medicine.
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Medical ethics.
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| Descript |
1 online resource (316 p.) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Athletic Enhancement, Human Nature and Ethics -- Preface -- Technology and Sport, Meanings and Realities -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Human Nature as a Promising Concept to Make Sense of the Spirit of Sport -- 1.1 Part I: Conceptual and Theoretical Framework -- 1.2 Part II: Transgressing the Limits of Human Nature -- 1.3 Part III: The Normative Value of Human Nature -- 1.4 Part IV: Socio-Cultural and Empirical Approaches -- 1.5 Part V: Practices and Policies -- Part I: Conceptual and Theoretical Framework |
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Chapter 2: Self , Other, Play, Display and Humanity: Development of a Five-Level Model for the Analysis of Ethical Arguments in the Athletic Enhancement Debate -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Creation of an Ethical Research Model -- 2.3 What Is at Stake? -- 2.4 And What if Humanity Is at Stake? -- 2.5 Doctoring Genes: Threats and Opportunities -- 2.6 Integrity, Fairness, Freedom and Health -- 2.7 Inclusion and Exclusion of Athletes -- 2.8 Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Is Human Enhancement Unnatural and Would This Be an Ethical Problem? -- 3.1 Introduction |
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3.2 Some Meanings of the Natural -- 3.3 The Natural As According to Nature -- 3.4 The Natural As the Normal -- 3.5 The Natural As the Essential -- 3.6 Conclusions for the Moral Value of the Natural -- Ref erences -- Chapter 4: Dignified Doping: Truly Unthinkable? An Existentialist Critique of 'Talentocracy' in Sports -- 4.1 What Doping Is - And What It Need Not Be -- 4.1.1 The Need for Rigorous Intrinsic Inquiry -- 4.1.2 What is Doping? -- 4.1.3 A Structured Search for Doping's Intrinsic Wrongs -- 4.2 Proper Origins. May the Best, or May the Blessed Man Win |
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4.2.1 Talent As Robustness and Doped Performances As Flukes -- 4.2.2 The Talented As the Authentic and Dopers As Phonies -- 4.2.3 Natural Endowment As the Gift of Place and Purpose, and Doping As Its Loss -- 4.2.4 Talent As a Signal of Fitness and Doping As Misleading Mimicry -- 4.3 Proper Processes. Just Do It, or: Let Nature Do It for You -- 4.3.1 Agency-Enabling Doping -- 4.3.2 Baseline-Lifting Doping -- 4.3.3 Passive Consumption of Natural Processes -- 4.4 Proper Outcomes. Sporting Towards a Blank Slate or To Showcase a Blueprint |
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4.4.1 Reshaping the Human Figure As Straying from the Original Plan -- 4.4.2 Reshaping the Human Figure As Repugnant Deformation -- 4.4.3 Reshaping the Human Figure As (Mutual) Alienation -- 4.5 Conclusion. The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Self-Made Man, Out There Playing Games -- References -- Part II: Transgressing the Limits of Human Nature -- Chapter 5: Subhuman , Superhuman, and Inhuman: Human Nature and the Enhanced Athlete -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Appeal of Philosophical Boundary Work -- 5.3 Stooping to the Subhuman -- 5.4 Aspiring to the Superhuman -- 5.5 Engineering the Inhuman |
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5.6 The Meaning of Athletic Agency |
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325 annual accesses. UkHlHU |
| Alt author |
Sterckx, Sigrid.
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Bonte, Pieter.
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| ISBN |
9789400751019 |
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