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The Ethics of Sports: A Reader

by: McNamee; Mike

The Ethics of Sports: A Reader

by: McNamee; Mike

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Copyright: 07/21/2010
Publisher: Routledge

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This important new collection of articles showcases the very best international scholarship in the field of sports ethics, and offers a comprehensive, one-stop resource for any student, scholar or sportsperson with an interest in this fascinating area.

Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction to sports ethics	p. 1
The roots of sports ethics: games, play, sports	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
Construction of a definition	p. 17
Nature and significance of play as a cultural phenomenon	p. 29
The game game	p. 33
Introduction to the appendices	p. 43
Games and the good-I	p. 52
Games and the good-II	p. 62
Sport: an historical phenomenology	p. 77
Fair contests: rules, spoiling and cheating	p. 93
Introduction	p. 95
From test to contest: an analysis of two kinds of counterpoint in sport	p. 100
The ends of the sports contest	p. 106
Fairness in sport: an ideal and its consequences	p. 116
It's not cricket: underarm bowling, legality and the meaning of life	p. 125
The ôhand of Godö?	p. 132
Spoiling: an indirect reflection of sport's moral imperative?	p. 145
Doping, genetic modification and the ethics of enhancement	p. 153
Introduction	p. 155
The athletes' viewpoint	p. 160
Why not dope? It's still all about the health	p. 169
Doping under medical control: conceptually possible but impossible in the world of professional sports?	p. 186
Ethical aspects of controlling genetic doping	p. 194
Bionic athletes	p. 208
Whose Prometheus? Transhumanism, biotechnology and the moral topography of sports medicine	p. 214
Cultures of equality and difference: dis/ability, gender and race	p. 225
Introduction	p. 227
Disability or extraordinary talent: Francesco Lentini (three legs) versus Oscar Pistorius (no legs)	p. 231
Tackling Murderball: masculinity, disability and the big screen	p. 242
Against sexual discrimination in sports	p. 254
On the definition of 'woman' in the sport context	p. 264
I'd rather wear a turban than a rose: a case study of the ethics of chanting	p. 276
Racism, racist acts and courageous role models	p. 286
Ethical development in and through sports: rules, virtues and vices	p. 301
Introduction	p. 303
What moral educational significance has physical education? A question in need of disambiguation	p. 306
Sport, ethos and education	p. 316
Schadenfreude in sports: envy, justice and self-esteem	p. 327
Athletic virtue: between East and West	p. 340
The project of a moral laboratory; and particularism	p. 347
Commercialism, corruption and exploitation in sports	p. 363
Introduction	p. 365
The degradation of sport	p. 369
The moral case against contemporary American sports	p. 382
Moral philosophy out on the track: what might be done?	p. 404
Sport and the systematic infliction of pain: a case study of state-sponsored mandatory doping in East Germany	p. 413
Sharp practice: intensive training and child abuse	p. 426
Ethics and adventurous activity	p. 435
Introduction	p. 437
The value of dangerous sport	p. 441
Adventure, climbing excellence and the practice of 'bolting'	p. 456
Kant goes skydiving: understanding the extreme by way of the sublime	p. 467
Can BASEjumping be morally defended?	p. 481
Sacred places	p. 493
Index	p. 501
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The Ethics of Sports: A Reader

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