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 physical safety of athletes and competitive
fairness in sporting events.
In exploring the culture, ethics, and policy issues surrounding
doping in competitive athletics, the contributors to this volume
detail the history and current state of drug use in sports, analyze
the distinctions between acceptable and unacceptable usages,
evaluate the ethical arguments for and against permitting athletes
to avail themselves of new means of improving athleticism, and
discuss possible future doping technologies and the issues that
they are likely to raise. They explain how and why some athletes
resort to doping and assess what the fair opportunity principle
means in theory and practice and how it relates to the concept of
an equal opportunity to perform.
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.
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