Book
Athleticenhancement, human nature and ethics
threats and opportunities of doping technologies
Abstract
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.
Details | Table of Contents
human nature as a promising concept to make sense of the spirit of sport
pp.1-18
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5101-9_1development of a five-level model for the analysis of ethical arguments in the athletic enhancement debate
pp.21-43
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5101-9_2pp.45-57
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5101-9_3truly unthinkable? an existentialist critique of "talentocracy' in sports
pp.59-86
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5101-9_4human nature and the enhanced athlete
pp.89-103
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5101-9_5a natural aim for improvement or a hubristic drive to mastery?
pp.105-123
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5101-9_6constituting normality in the age of enhancement
pp.125-146
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5101-9_7on natural performances and authentic art
pp.149-162
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5101-9_8performance-enhancing drugs, risk, and the natures of contest and of humans
pp.163-183
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5101-9_9recognising limits in sports and human nature
pp.185-198
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5101-9_10an online community's reflections on women's use of performance enhancing drugs in recreational sports
pp.201-218
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5101-9_11pp.219-235
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5101-9_12Oscar Pistorius and the threat to pure performance
pp.237-251
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5101-9_13pp.255-270
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5101-9_14choosing between imperfections
pp.271-289
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5101-9_15too good to be true?
pp.291-310
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5101-9_16Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2013
Pages: 315
ISBN (hardback): 978-94-007-5100-2
ISBN (digital): 978-94-007-5101-9
Full citation:
Tolleneer Jan, Sterckx Sigrid, Bonte Pieter (2013) Athleticenhancement, human nature and ethics: threats and opportunities of doping technologies. Dordrecht, Springer.