Performance-Enhancing Technologies in Sports: Ethical, Conceptual, and Scientific Issues

This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of experts in bioethics, sports, law, and philosophy to examine the need for regulating such athletic performance-enhancing technologies as steroids and gene doping. The use of performance-improving drugs in sports dates back to the early Olympians, who took an herbal tonic before competitions to augment athletic prowess. But the permissibility of doing so came into question only in the twentieth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801893615
• ISBN13: 9780801893612
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher