Overview
- Addresses the question of should sports revolve around natural talent or should athletes be allowed to enhance their bodies with biotech?
- Clarifies the distinction between arguments on doping itself and circumstantial arguments about its safety, accessibility, research & development, etc.
- Provides both philosophical and sociocultural views on the valuation of natural talent and enhanced ability?
Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (LIME, volume 52)
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“The book collects contributions of different authors with diverging points of views … providing a rich analysis of one of the most controversial aspects of sports. … For those who work in the field of clinical bioethics (i.e., clinical ethics consultants or ethics committee members) and for those who are interested in implementing the knowledge of the relation between sport and doping, this book may serve as a very useful tool for in-depth analysis of these ethical issues.” (Luciana Caenazzo, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Vol. 35, 2014)
“This edited book presents a thorough discussion of enhanced athletics in relation to different conceptions of human nature. … The diversity of perspectives and approaches this book presents are meant to reach a wide range of readers. From philosophers to anthropologists to policy-makers, different sections will challenge and engage readers from a broad spectrum of scholarly backgrounds. … This book is an excellent comprehensive look at the debate, and it is particularly successful in presenting a diversity of frameworks.” (Heidi R. Pieroni, Doody’s Book Reviews, July, 2013)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Athletic Enhancement, Human Nature and Ethics
Book Subtitle: Threats and Opportunities of Doping Technologies
Editors: Jan Tolleneer, Sigrid Sterckx, Pieter Bonte
Series Title: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5101-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5100-2Published: 07 December 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9533-4Published: 29 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5101-9Published: 09 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1567-8008
Series E-ISSN: 2351-955X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 315
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethics, Sports Medicine, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics