Performance-Enhancing Technologies in Sports: Ethical, Conceptual, and Scientific Issues

(Part of the Bioethics Series)

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0801893615

ISBN13:9780801893612

Release Date:November 2009

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Age Range:22 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Performance-Enhancing Technologies in Sports: Ethical, Conceptual, and Scientific Issues

(Part of the Bioethics Series)

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