Bioethics, Genetics and Sport - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bioethics, Genetics and Sport write by Silvia Camporesi. This book was released on 2018-04-09. Bioethics, Genetics and Sport available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Advances in genetics and related biotechnologies are having a profound effect on sport, raising important ethical questions about the limits and possibilities of the human body. Drawing on real case studies and grounded in rigorous scientific evidence, this book offers an ethical critique of current practices and explores the intersection of genetics, ethics and sport. Written by two of the world's leading authorities on the ethics of biotechnology in sport, the book addresses the philosophical implications of the latest scientific developments and technological data. Distinguishing fact from popular myth and science fiction, it covers key topics such as the genetic basis of sport performance and the role of genetic testing in talent identification and development. Its ten chapters discuss current debates surrounding issues such as the shifting relationship between genetics, sports medicine and sports science, gene enhancement, gene transfer technology, doping and disability sport. The first book to be published on this important subject in more than a decade, this is fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in the ethics of sport, bioethics or sport performance.
Genetically Modified Athletes
Genetically Modified Athletes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Genetically Modified Athletes write by Andy Miah. This book was released on 2004-08-02. Genetically Modified Athletes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book to examine the profound ethical issues raised by the use of genetic technologies in sports, asking whether sporting authorities can, or even should, protect sport from genetic modification.
Genetic Technology and Sport
Genetic Technology and Sport - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Genetic Technology and Sport write by Claudio Tamburrini. This book was released on 2005-11-03. Genetic Technology and Sport available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A world-class collection of writers from the very top of their fields, both from the academic and the sports administration communities This is a subject that is set to provoke much debate in the world of sport, and in bio-ethics more generally This is the first book to analyze the gender specific questions that arise from GM sport
Gene Doping in Sports
Gene Doping in Sports - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gene Doping in Sports write by Angela J. Schneider. This book was released on 2006-03-14. Gene Doping in Sports available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Advances in genetics have begun to deliver on their promise of new and improved approaches to the prevention and treatment of human disease, including the gene-based therapeutics. The international sports community has begun to recognize the potential harmful use of gene transfer technology by athletes. The task of monitoring and controlling sports doping must be a truly cooperative effort, involving the cooperation of a range of local, national, and international organizations. There are very serious broad social and ethical issues at stake that relate to our definition of sports and its role in our society, as well as the social and ethical principles that are challenged or breached through sport doping, determining which forms of performance enhancement – in sport or any other realm of human activity – are acceptable, and what makes the enhancement of sport performance different from enhancement in other areas of human activity (e.g., cosmetic surgery, mood and learning enhancement through drugs, and drug-based “treatment of physical and intellectual changes in normal aging process). This book tackles all these issues and more, serving as the first such focused treatment of this increasingly important topic, which has broad-based implications for science, medicine, sports, and society.
The Case against Perfection
The Case against Perfection - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Case against Perfection write by Michael J Sandel. This book was released on 2009-06-30. The Case against Perfection available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature—to enhance our genetic traits and those of our children. Although most people find at least some forms of genetic engineering disquieting, it is not easy to articulate why. What is wrong with re-engineering our nature? The Case against Perfection explores these and other moral quandaries connected with the quest to perfect ourselves and our children. Michael Sandel argues that the pursuit of perfection is flawed for reasons that go beyond safety and fairness. The drive to enhance human nature through genetic technologies is objectionable because it represents a bid for mastery and dominion that fails to appreciate the gifted character of human powers and achievements. Carrying us beyond familiar terms of political discourse, this book contends that the genetic revolution will change the way philosophers discuss ethics and will force spiritual questions back onto the political agenda. In order to grapple with the ethics of enhancement, we need to confront questions largely lost from view in the modern world. Since these questions verge on theology, modern philosophers and political theorists tend to shrink from them. But our new powers of biotechnology make these questions unavoidable. Addressing them is the task of this book, by one of America’s preeminent moral and political thinkers.
