Good Sport

Why Our Games Matter - And How Doping Undermines Them

Thomas H. Murray (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-068798-4 (ISBN)

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Why are fiberglass vaulting poles and hinged skates accepted in sport - while performance-enhancing drugs are forbidden? Are the rules that forbid them arbitrary? Should we level the playing field by allowing all competitors to use drugs that allow them to run faster or longer, leap higher, or lift more? In this provocative exploration of what draws us to sport as participants and spectators, Thomas Murray argues that the values and meanings embedded within our games provide the guidance we need to make difficult decisions about fairness and performance-enhancing technologies.

Good Sport reveals what we really care about in sport and how the reckless use of biomedical enhancements undermines those values. Implicit in sports history, rules, and practices are values that provide a sturdy foundation for an ethics of sport that celebrates natural talents and dedication. You see these values when the Paralympics creates multiple level playing fields among athletes with different kinds of impairments. They appear again in sports struggles to be fair to all when an extraordinary woman athlete emerges who appears to possess a mans hormone profile and muscles. They are threatened when the effort to assure athletes a fair chance to win without doping is subverted by cheating or by corruption, as in the case of Russias state-supported doping operation.

Performance-enhancing drugs distort the connection between natural talents, the dedication to perfect those talents, and success in sport. Explaining the fundamental role of values and meanings, Good Sport reveals not just what we champion in the athletic arena but also, more broadly, what we value in human achievement.

Thomas H. Murray is President Emeritus of The Hastings Center. He served as Presidential appointee on the National Bioethics Advisory Commission and as chair of its Genetics subcommittee. He has been president of the Society for Health and Human Values and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and chaired the Ethical Issues Review Panel for the World Anti-Doping Agency. He is currently a member of the Independent IAAF Ethics Board.

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Slippery Slope to Doping
Chapter 2: What Sprt Values - Natural Talents and How We Perfect Them
Chapter 3: Rules and Meanings
Chapter 4: What's Fair - Aristotle, the Paralympics, and the Pursuit of Excellence
Chapter 5: What's Fair - Geography and Opportunity
Chapter 6: Gender, Fairness, and Meaning
Chapter 7: Using--and Misusing--Health and Safety
Chapter 8: Is Anti-Doping Possible? What Are the Alternatives
Chapter 9: On the Meaning and Future of Sport

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Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2018
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	211 x 145 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-068798-3 / 0190687983
ISBN-13	978-0-19-068798-4 / 9780190687984
Zustand	Neuware