Sport, Medicine, Ethics

Mike McNamee is Professor of Applied Ethics in the College of Engineering at Swansea University, UK. He is editor of the international journal Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, co-editor of Routledge’s landmark book series Ethics and Sports and a former President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport.

1. Locating the Ethics in Sport Medicine Ethics SECTION I: Sports Medicine as an Ethical Practice 1. Why Sports Medicine is not Medicine 2. Whose Prometheus?: Transhumanism, Biotechnology and the Moral Topography of Sports Medicine 3. Ethical Practice and Sports Physician Protection: A Proposal SECTION II: Professional Ethics and Sports Medicine 1. On the Duty of the Doctor not to Disclose Athlete Doping Data Without Consent 2. Sports medicine, Confidentiality and the Press 3. Sports Physicians and Anti Doping Governance: Between Collusion and Negligence SECTION III: Ethically Significant Concepts in Sports Medicine: Health, Wellbeing and Harm 1. Suffering in and for Sport: Some Philosophical Remarks on a Painful Emotion 2. Sport, Physical Activity and Well Being: An Objectivist Proposal 3. Investigating Eating Disorders in Elite Gymnasts: Conceptual, Ethical and Methodological Issues SECTION IIV: Doping and the Ethics of Performance Enhancement 1. Ethical and Juridical Peculiarities of Anti-Doping Legislation 2. Beyond Consent: The Ethics of Pediatric Doping 2. The Spirit of Sport and the Medicalization of Anti-Doping: Empirical and Normative Ethics SECTION V: Genetics and the Future of Sports Medicine 1. Genetic Testing and Sports Medicine Ethics 2. What’s Wrong with Genetic Enhancement in Sport? 3. Gene Transfer for Pain Tolerance: A Tool to Cope with the Intractable, or an Unethical Endurance-Enhancing Technology?