Ethics and Sport
About the Book Series
The Ethics and Sport Series was the first of its kind in the world and is the key source for scholars in the field. Its main aim has been to support and contribute to the development of the study of ethical issues in sport, and indeed to the continued development of Sports Ethics as a legitimate discipline in its own right.
Academics and devotees of sport have long debated ethical questions in sport issues such as, cheating, violence, and fair play, but recent changes in the world of sport and the world at large have seen expansion in the remit of the Ethics and Sport Series to cover new areas such as the commercialisation and commodification of sports, and the use of human enhancement technologies including genetic technologies within sport. The series will continue to address the changing ethical dimensions of sport’s landscape.
Philosophical ethics may be seen as both a theoretical academic discipline and as an ordinary everyday activity contributing to conversation, journalism and the media, as well as practical decision-making for those working in sport. Titles in Ethics and Sport Series draw on research in philosophical ethics as well as related disciplines such as social theory, psychology and cultural studies with the aim of providing a resource for readers from diverse professional and academic backgrounds.
The series aims to encourage critical reflection on the practice of sport, and to stimulate professional evaluation and development. Each volume explores new work relating to philosophical ethics and the social and cultural study of ethical issues. Each volume is different in scope, appeal, focus and treatment. A balance between local and international foci, perennial and contemporary issues, levels of audience, teaching and research application, is present. Each volume is complete in itself, but also complements others in the series.
Athletics and Philosophy in the Ancient World: Contests of Virtue
1st Edition
By Heather Reid
November 13, 2012
This book examines the relationship between athletics and philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome focused on the connection between athleticism and virtue. It begins by observing that the link between athleticism and virtue is older than sport, reaching back to the athletic feats of kings and ...
Ethics, Disability and Sports
1st Edition
Edited
By Ejgil Jespersen, Mike McNamee
February 09, 2012
This volume addresses a range of philosophical and ethical issues in adapted physical activity and disability sports participation more broadly. It is comprised of a range of essays by international scholars whose backgrounds embrace different traditions of philosophy, pedagogy and adapted physical...
The Ethics of Sports Medicine
1st Edition
Edited
By Claudio Tamburrini, Torbjörn Tännsjö
February 09, 2012
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 ...
Bodily Democracy: Towards a Philosophy of Sport for All
1st Edition
By Henning Eichberg
December 15, 2011
Sport has gained increasing importance for welfare society. In this process, however, the term of ‘sport’ has become less and less clear. Larger parts of what nowadays is called ‘sport for all’ are non-competitive and derived from traditions of gymnastics, dance, festivity, games, outdoor ...
Ethics, Knowledge and Truth in Sports Research: An Epistemology of Sport
1st Edition
By Graham McFee
October 11, 2011
The study of sport is characterised by its inter-disciplinarity, with researchers drawing on apparently incompatible research traditions and ethical benchmarks in the natural sciences and the social sciences, depending on their area of specialisation. In this groundbreaking study, Graham McFee ...
The Ethics of Sports Coaching
1st Edition
Edited
By Alun R. Hardman, Carwyn Jones
January 13, 2011
Is the role of the sports coach simply to improve sporting performance? What are the key ethical issues in sports coaching practice? Despite the increasing sophistication of our understanding of the player-sport-coach relationship, the dominant perspective of the sports coach is still an ...
Exercise and Eating Disorders: An Ethical and Legal Analysis
1st Edition
By Simona Giordano
May 03, 2010
Eating disorders (EDs) have become a social epidemic in the developed world. This book addresses the close links between EDs and exercise, helping us to understand why people with EDs often exercise to excessive and potentially harmful levels. This is also the first book to examine this issue from ...
The Ethics of Doping and Anti-Doping: Redeeming the Soul of Sport?
1st Edition
By Verner Møller
September 21, 2009
With every positive drugs test the credibility and veracity of modern elite sport is diminished. In this radical and provocative critique of current anti-doping policy and practice, Verner Møller argues that the fight against doping – promoted as an initiative to cleanse sport of cheats – is at ...
Research Ethics in Exercise, Health and Sports Sciences
1st Edition
By Mike McNamee, Stephen Olivier, Paul Wainwright
December 06, 2006
Research Ethics in Exercise, Health and Sports Sciences puts ethics at the centre of research in these rapidly expanding fields of knowledge. Placing the issues in historical context, and using informative case studies, the authors examine how moral theory can guide research design, education, and ...
Ethics, Money and Sport: This Sporting Mammon
1st Edition
By Adrian Walsh, Richard Giulianotti
November 27, 2006
Written from the contrasting yet complementary perspectives of sociology and philosophy, this book explores the far-reaching ethical consequences of the runaway commodification of sport, focusing on those instances where commodification gives rise to morally undesirable consequences. The authors&...
Pain and Injury in Sport: Social and Ethical Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Sigmund Loland, Berit Skirstad, Ivan Waddington
February 10, 2006
For elite athletes, pain and injury are normal. In a challenge to the orthodox medical model, this book makes it clear that pain and injury cannot be understood in terms of physiology alone, and examines the influence of social and cultural processes on how athletes experience pain and injury. It ...
Genetic Technology and Sport: Ethical Questions
1st Edition
Edited
By Claudio Tamburrini, Torbjörn Tännsjö
December 12, 2005
Will the genetic design of athletes destroy sport … or will it lead to a new and extraordinary age of athletic achievement? Exploring a new territory in sport and ethics, this edited collection contains some of the best new writing that has emerged from the debates concerning the uses of genetic ...