Genetic Technology and Sport: Ethical Questions

by Tamburrini; Claudio

• ISBN13: 9780415342360
• ISBN10: 0415342368
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

For elite athletes seeking a winning advantage, manipulation of their own genetic code has become a realistic possibility. InGenetic Technology and Sport,experts from sports science, genetics, philosophy, ethics, and international sports administration describe the potential applications of the new technology and debate the questions surrounding its use.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	ix
Series editors' preface	xiii
Introduction: the life sciences and the ethos of sport	1	(10)
PART I The state of the art	11	(44)
1 The international anti-doping policy and its implementation	13	(6)
ARNE LJUNOQVIST
2 The basics of gene doping	19	(13)
PETER SCHJERLINC
3 Genetic enhancement of athletic performance	32	(10)
ANGELA J. SCHNEIDER
4 Gene doping: the shape of things to come	42	(13)
ANDY MIAH
PART II The genetic enhancement of athletes	55	(50)
5 Genetic engineering and elitism in sport	57	(13)
TORBJÖRN TÄNNSJÖ
6 What's wrong with admiring athletes and other people?	70	(12)
INGMAR PERSSON
7 Educational or genetic blueprints, what's the difference?	82	(9)
CLAUDIO TAMBURRINI
8 Sport and genetics: moral and educational considerations regarding 'athletic predestination'	91	(14)
IVO VAN HILVOORDE
PART III Genetic testing of athletes	105	(42)
9 Ethical aspects of controlling genetic doping	107	(19)
CHRISTIAN MUNTHE
10 Nutrigenomics, individualism and sports	126	(10)
RUTH CHADWICK
11 Compulsory genetic testing for APOE Epsilon 4 and boxing	136	(11)
JULIAN SAVULESCU
PART IV Genetic technology and the ethos of sport	147	(32)
12 Citius, altius, fortius ad absurdum: biology, performance and sportsmanship in the twenty-first century	149	(9)
LINCOLN ALLISON
13 The vulnerability thesis and use of bio-medical technology in sport	158	(7)
SIGMUND LOLAND
14 Sport, gene doping and ethics	165	(14)
GUNNAR BREIVIK
PART V Gender equality and gene technology in sport	179	(40)
15 The genetic design of a new Amazon	181	(18)
CLAUDIO TAMBURRINI AND TORBJÖRN TÄNNSJÖ
16 Resisting the emergence of Bio-Amazons	199	(6)
SUSAN SHERWIN AND MEREDITH SCHWARTZ
17 Bio-Amazons – a comment	205	(4)
RUTH CHADWICK AND SARAH WILSON
18 What is gender equality in sports?	209	(10)
SIMONA GIORDANO AND JOHN HARRIS
Index	219