Athletic Enhancement, Human Nature and Ethics

Preface by Thomas H. Murray, President Emeritus of the Hastings Center and Chair of the Ethical Issues Review Panel for the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Introduction: Human nature as a promising concept to make sense of the spirit of sport.- Part I Conceptual and Theoretical Framework.- Jan Tolleneer and Paul Schotsmans, Self, other, play, display and humanity. Development of a five-level model for the analysis of ethical arguments in the athletic enhancement debate.- Christian Lenk, Is human enhancement unnatural and would this be an ethical problem?.- Pieter Bonte, Dignified doping: truly unthinkable? An existentialist critique of ‘talentocracy’ in sports. - Part II Transgressing the limits of human nature.- Eric Juengst, Subhuman, superhuman, and inhuman. Human nature and the enhanced athlete.- Trijsje Franssen, Prometheus on dope. A natural aim for improvement or a hubristic drive to mastery?.- Darian Meacham, Outliers, freaks, and cheats. Constituting normality in the age ofenhancement.- Part III The normative value of human nature.- Andreas De Block, Doping use as an artistic crime. On natural performances and authentic art.- Andrew Holowchak, Something from nothing or nothing from something?. Performance-enhancing drugs, risk, and the natures of contest and of humans.- Mike McNamee, Transhuman athletes and pathological perfectionism. Recognising limits in sports and human nature.- Part IV Socio-cultural and empirical approaches.- Marianne Raakilde Jespersen, “Definitely not for women”. An online community’s reflections on women’s use of performance enhancing drugs in recreational sports.- Denis Hauw, Toward a situated and dynamic understanding of doping behaviors.- Tara Magdalinski, Restoring or enhancing athletic bodies. Oscar Pistorius and the threat to pure performance.- Part V Practices and policies.- John Hoberman, Sports physicians, human nature, and the limits of medical enhancement.- Bengt Kayser and Barbara Broers, Anti-doping policies: choosing between imperfections.- Roger Brownsword, A simple regulatory principle for performance-enhancing technologies. Too good to be true?