The Ethics of Sports Medicine |
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| Editor:
| Tamburrini, Claudio
Tännsjö, Torbjörn |
| Series title: | Ethics and Sport Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-415-85367-5 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $48.95 |
Book Description:
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The book aims to establish a critical dialogue between sports ethicists and bioethicists across the range of sporting disciplines at elite level. It will address questions such as:
- are the increasingly intrusive testing methods of elite sports compatible with the right to autonomy and privacy granted to patients in general medicine?
- could there be a moral obligation to correct injustices produced by the genetic lottery?
- how should the goals of sports...
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The book aims to establish a critical dialogue between sports ethicists and bioethicists across the range of sporting disciplines at elite level. It will address questions such as:
- are the increasingly intrusive testing methods of elite sports compatible with the right to autonomy and privacy granted to patients in general medicine?
- could there be a moral obligation to correct injustices produced by the genetic lottery?
- how should the goals of sports medicine be viewed from the perspective of rationing scarce health care resources?
This book was published as a special issue in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.