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9780415342377

Genetic Technology and Sport: Ethical Questions

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415342377

  • ISBN10:

    0415342376

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2005-12-12
  • Publisher: Routledge

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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)
The international anti-doping policy and its implementation
13(6)
Arne Ljungqvist
The basics of gene doping
19(13)
Peter Schjerling
Genetic enhancement of athletic performance
32(10)
Angela J. Schneider
Gene doping: the shape of things to come
42(13)
Andy Miah
PART II The genetic enhancement of athletes
55(50)
Genetic engineering and elitism in sport
57(13)
Torbjorn Tannsjo
What's wrong with admiring athletes and other people?
70(12)
Ingmar Persson
Educational or genetic blueprints, what's the difference?
82(9)
Claudio Tamburrini
Sport and genetics: moral and educational considerations regarding `athletic predestination'
91(14)
Ivo Van Hilvoorde
PART III Genetic testing of athletes
105(42)
Ethical aspects of controlling genetic doping
107(19)
Christian Munthe
Nutrigenomics, individualism and sports
126(10)
Ruth Chadwick
Compulsory genetic testing for APOE Epsilon 4 and boxing
136(11)
Julian Savulescu
PART IV Genetic technology and the ethos of sport
147(32)
Citius, altius, fortius ad absurdum: biology, performance and sportsmanship in the twenty-first century
149(9)
Lincoln Allison
The vulnerability thesis and use of bio-medical technology in sport
158(7)
Sigmund Loland
Sport, gene doping and ethics
165(14)
Gunnar Breivik
PART V Gender equality and gene technology in sport
179(40)
The genetic design of a new Amazon
181(18)
Claudio Tamburrini
Torbjorn Tannsjo
Resisting the emergence of Bio-Amazons
199(6)
Susan Sherwin
Meredith Schwartz
Bio-Amazons - a comment
205(4)
Ruth Chadwick
Sarah Wilson
What is gender equality in sports?
209(10)
Simona Giordano
John Harris
Index 219

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