Performance-Enhancing Technologies in Sports

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 the editor of Gender and American Law. Angela A. Wasunna is the assistant director of international affairs at Pfizer, Inc., and the coauthor of Medicine and the Market, also published by Johns Hopkins.

• List of Contributors Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Historical and Cultural ContextChapter 1. Putting Doping into Context: Historical and Cultural Perspectives Chapter 2. The Context of Performance Enhancement: An Athlete's Perspective Chapter 3. Reflections on the "Parallel Federation Solution" to the Problem of Drug Use in Sport: The Cautionary Tale of Powerlifting Chapter 4. The Role of Physicians, Scientists, Trainers, Coaches, and Other Nonathletes in Athletes' Drug UseChapter 5. Performance-Enhancing Technologies and the Ethics of Human Subjects ResearchChapter 6. Toward an Understanding of Factors Influencing Athletes' Attitudes about Performance-Enhancing Technologies: Implications for Ethics Education Part II: Conceptual Maps and Ethical ImplicationsChapter 7. Ethics and Endurance-Enhancing Technologies in SportChapter 8. Fairness in Sport: An Ideal and Its ConsequencesChapter 9. Annotating the Moral Map of Enhancement: Gene Doping, the Limits of Medicine, and the Spirit of SportChapter 10. Genetic Enhancement in Sport: Ethical, Legal, and Policy Concerns Chapter 11. In Search of an Ethics for Sport: Genetic Hierarchies, Handicappers General, and Embodied ExcellencePart III: Current and Future ScienceChapter 12. Genetic Doping in Sport: Applying the Concepts and Tools of Gene Therapy Chapter 13. Technologies to Enhance Oxygen Delivery and Methods to Detect the Use of These TechnologiesIndex

A fascinating book for those interested in sports studies, for athletes and other sport professionals, and even for armchair quarterbacks... Highly recommended. Choice 2010