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Performance-enhancing Technologies in Sports
. Ed(S): Murray, Thomas H.; Maschke, Karen J.; Wasunna, Angela A.
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Description for Performance-enhancing Technologies in Sports
This frank discussion of doping in sports includes accounts by former elite athletes and offers an illuminating exchange over the meaning and value of natural talents and genetic hierarchies and the essence of fair competition. Editor(s): Murray, Thomas H.; Maschke, Karen J.; Wasunna, Angela A. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3, 2 black & white line drawings, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: WSDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 626.
This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of experts in bioethics, sports, law, and philosophy to examine the need for regulating such athletic performance-enhancing technologies as steroids and gene doping. The use of performance-improving drugs in sports dates back to the early Olympians, who took an herbal tonic before competitions to augment athletic prowess. But the permissibility of doing so came into question only in the twentieth century as the popularity of anabolic steroid use and blood doping among athletes grew. Sports officials and others-aided by the development of technologies to test participants for proscribed substances-became concerned over the ... Read more
This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of experts in bioethics, sports, law, and philosophy to examine the need for regulating such athletic performance-enhancing technologies as steroids and gene doping. The use of performance-improving drugs in sports dates back to the early Olympians, who took an herbal tonic before competitions to augment athletic prowess. But the permissibility of doing so came into question only in the twentieth century as the popularity of anabolic steroid use and blood doping among athletes grew. Sports officials and others-aided by the development of technologies to test participants for proscribed substances-became concerned over the ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801893612
SKU
V9780801893612
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About . Ed(S): Murray, Thomas H.; Maschke, Karen J.; Wasunna, Angela A.
Thomas H. Murray is the president of The Hastings Center and an adjunct professor of bioethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He has written extensively about medical ethics and is the coeditor of Genetic Ties and the Family, also published by Johns Hopkins. Karen J. Maschke is a research scholar at The Hastings Center and ... Read more
Reviews for Performance-enhancing Technologies in Sports
A fascinating book for those interested in sports studies, for athletes and other sport professionals, and even for armchair quarterbacks... Highly recommended. Choice 2010