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Title Athletic enhancement, human nature and ethics : threats and opportunities of doping technologies / Jan Tolleneer, Sigrid Sterckx, Pieter Bonte, editors
Published Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2013

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Series International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine, 1567-8008 ; v. 52
International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ; v. 52
Contents Self, Other, Play, Display and Humanity: Development of a Five-Level Model for the Analysis of Ethical Arguments in the Athletic Enhancement Debate / Jan Tolleneer, Paul Schotsmans -- Is Human Enhancement Unnatural and Would This Be an Ethical Problem? / Christian Lenk -- Dignified Doping: Truly Unthinkable? An Existentialist Critique of 'Talentocracy' in Sports / Pieter Bonte -- Transgressing the limits of human nature -- Subhuman, Superhuman, and Inhuman: Human Nature and the Enhanced Athlete / Eric T. Juengst -- Prometheus on Dope: A Natural Aim for Improvement or a Hubristic Drive to Mastery? / Trijsje Franssen -- Outliers, Freaks, and Cheats: Constituting Normality in the Age of Enhancement / Darian Meacham -- The normative value of human nature -- Doping Use As an Artistic Crime: On Natural Performances and Authentic Art / Andreas De Block -- Something from Nothing or Nothing from Something? Performance-Enhancing Drugs, Risk, and the Natures of Contest and of Humans / M. Andrew Holowchak -- Transhuman Athletes and Pathological Perfectionism: Recognising Limits in Sports and Human Nature / Michael J. McNamee -- Socio-cultural and empirical approaches -- "Definitely Not for Women": An Online Community's Reflections on Women's Use of Performance Enhancing Drugs in Recreational Sports / Marianne Raakilde Jespersen -- Toward a Situated and Dynamic Understanding of Doping Behaviors / Denis Hauw -- Restoring or Enhancing Athletic Bodies: Oscar Pistorius and the Threat to Pure Performance / Tara Magdalinski -- Practices and policies -- Sports Physicians, Human Nature, and the Limits of Medical Enhancement / John Hoberman -- Anti-doping Policies: Choosing Between Imperfections / Bengt Kayser, Barbara Broers -- A Simple Regulatory Principle for Performance-Enhancing Technologies: Too Good to Be True? / Roger Brownsword
Summary The book provides an in-depth discussion on the human nature concept from different perspectives and from different disciplines, analyzing its use in the doping debate and researching its normative overtones. The relation between natural talent and enhanced abilities is scrutinized within a proper conceptual and theoretical framework: is doping to be seen as a factor of the athlete's dehumanization or is it a tool to fulfill his/her aspirations to go faster, higher and stronger? Which characteristics make sports such a peculiar subject of ethical discussion and what are the, both intrinsic and extrinsic, moral dangers and opportunities involved in athletic enhancement? This volume combines fundamental philosophical anthropological reflection with applied ethics and socio-cultural and empirical approaches. Furthermore it presents guidelines to decision- and policy-makers on local, national and international levels
Analysis Ethics
Sports medicine
Medical ethics
Theory of Medicine/Bioethics
Notes Includes author index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Doping in sports -- Moral and ethical aspects
Medical ethics.
Doping in sports.
Anabolic steroids.
Doping in Sports
Athletes
Anabolic Agents
Substance-Related Disorders
Sports -- ethics
Ethics, Medical
MEDICAL -- Ethics.
Droit.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Doping in sports
Anabolic steroids
Medical ethics
Form Electronic book
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Author Tolleneer, J. (Jan)
Sterckx, Sigrid
Bonte, Pieter
ISBN 9789400751019
940075101X
9400751001
9789400751002
9781283935913
1283935910