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

By:

Miah, Andy, 1975-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Ethics and sportPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2005, c2004.Description: xviii, 208 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

0415298806 (pbk.)
9780415298803 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

174.9796 MIA

Contents:

Anti-doping and performance enhancement. Introduction: Why genetics now? -- Why not dope? It\'s still about the health -- Forget drugs and the ideology of harmonisation -- Conceptualising genetics in sport. What is possible? Imminent applications for the genetically modified athlete -- Interests, politics and ways of reasoning -- The ethical status of genetic modification in sport. Humanness, dignity and autonomy -- Personhood, identity and the ethics of authenticity -- Virus, disease, illness, health, well-being--and enhancement -- Unfair advantages and other harms -- Genetically modified athletes. Enhancing, altering or manipulating people? -- Sport needs genetic modification -- Conclusions and implications.

Review: In a provocative analysis of sport ethics and human values, Genetically Modified Athletes imagines the brave new world of sport. Examining this new ethical issue at a crucial time in its theorisation, the book questions the very cornerstone of sporting and medical ethics, asking whether sporting authorities can or even should protect sport from genetic modification. 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, Genetically Modified Athletes argues that being human matters in sport, but that genetic modification does not have to challenge this capacity. Genetically Modified Athletes includes examinations of: The concept of \'good sport\' and definitions of cheating, Privacy rights and using genetic data for sport, Notions of autonomy, dignity and personhood, The usefulness (or not) of the terms \'doping\' and \'anti-doping\'. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In a provocative analysis of sport ethics and human values, Genetically Modified Athletes imagines the brave new world of sport. The internationally acclaimed book examines this issue at a crucial time in its theorisation, questioning the very cornerstone of sporting and medical ethics, asking whether sporting authorities can, or even should, protect sport from genetic modification.

This book brings together sport studies and bioethics to challenge our understanding of the values that define sport. We already allow that athletes can optimise their performance by the use of technologies; without wishing to assert that 'anything goes' in sports performance enhancement, Andy Miah argues that simply being human matters in sport and that genetic modification does not have to challenge this capacity.

Genetically Modifies Athletes includes examination of:

* the concept of 'good sport' and the definition of cheating
* the doped athlete - should we be more sympathetic?
* the role of the medical industry
* the usefulness (or not) of the terms 'doping' and 'anti-doping'.

An important and growing field of interest, this book should be read by students, academics and practitioners.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-202) and index.

In a provocative analysis of sport ethics and human values, Genetically Modified Athletes imagines the brave new world of sport. Examining this new ethical issue at a crucial time in its theorisation, the book questions the very cornerstone of sporting and medical ethics, asking whether sporting authorities can or even should protect sport from genetic modification. 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, Genetically Modified Athletes argues that being human matters in sport, but that genetic modification does not have to challenge this capacity. Genetically Modified Athletes includes examinations of: The concept of \'good sport\' and definitions of cheating, Privacy rights and using genetic data for sport, Notions of autonomy, dignity and personhood, The usefulness (or not) of the terms \'doping\' and \'anti-doping\'. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Part 1 Introduction: Anti-doping and performance enhancement
Why Genetics Now?: An Introduction
1 Why Not Dope?... It's Still About the Health
2 Forget Drugs and the Ideology of Hermonisation
Part 2 Conceptualising Genetics in Sport
3 What is Possible?: Imminent applications for the GM athlete
4 Interests, Politics and Ways of Reasoning
Part 3 The Ethical Status of GM in Sport
5 Humanness, Dignity and the Ethics of Authenticity
7 Virus, Disease, Illness, Health, Well-Being... and Enhancement
8 Unfair Advantages and Other Harms
Part 4 Genetically Modified Athletes
9 Tackling Bioethical Arguments
10 Tackling Sport Ethical Arguements
11 Conclusions and Implications

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Andy Miah is Lecturer in Media, Bioethics, and Cyberculture at the University of Paisley, and Tutor of Ethics in Science and Medicine at the University of Glasgow.