Gene doping in sports : the science and ethics of genetically modified athletes

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Gene doping in sports : the science and ethics of genetically modified athletes

Angela J. Schneider, Theodore Friedmann

（Advances in genetics / edited by E.W. Caspari and M. Demerec, v. 51）

Elsevier Academic Press, c2006

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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.

Table of Contents

Introduction The Scientific Basis for Gene Transfer Success and Problems in Early Gene Transfer Experiments Ethics and Oversight in Clinical Trials Drugs and Genes in Sport International Cooperation and Regulation: The Banbury Workshop (2002) The Ethical Framework in Sport Sport and Humanness The Athlete's Perspective

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  • NCID
    BA75948808
  • ISBN
    • 0120176513
  • Country Code
    ne
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Amsterdam ; Tokyo
  • Pages/Volumes
    xii, 116 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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