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Title Performance-enhancing technologies in sports : ethical, conceptual, and scientific issues / edited by Thomas H. Murray, Karen J. Maschke, Angela A. Wasunna.

Imprint Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  362.29 P416 2009    ---  Available
Description xviii, 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Putting doping into context : historical and cultural perspectives / John Hoberman -- The context of performance enhancement : an athlete's perspective / Angela J. Schneider -- Reflections on the "parallel federation solution" to the problem of drug use in sport : the cautionary tale of powerlifting / Jan Todd and Terry Todd -- The role of physicians, scientists, trainers, coaches, and other nonathletes in athlete's drug use / Gary A. Green -- Performance-enhancing technologies and the ethics of human subjects research / Karen J. Maschke -- Toward an understanding of factors influencing athletes' attitudes about performance-enhancing technologies : implications for ethics education / Robert J. Donovan -- Ethics and endurance-enhancing technologies in sport / Thomas H. Murray --
Fairness in sport : an ideal and its consequences / Sigmund Loland -- Annotating the moral map of enhancement : gene doping, the limits of medicine, and the spirit of sport / Eric T. Juengst -- Genetic enhancement in sports : ethical, legal, and policy concerns / Maxwell J. Mehlman -- In search of an ethics for sport : genetic hierarchies, handicappers general, and embodied excellence / Thomas H. Murray -- Genetic doping in sport : applying the concepts and tools of gene therapy / Theodore Friedmann and Eric P. Hoffman -- Technologies to enhance oxygen delivery and methods to detect the use of these technologies / Larry D. Bowers.
Subject Doping in sports.
Athletic ability.
Gene therapy.
Athletic Performance.
Genetic Enhancement -- ethics.
Sports -- ethics.
Added Author Murray, Thomas H., 1946-
Maschke, Karen J.
Wasunna, Angela A., 1973-
ISBN 9780801893612 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801893615 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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