Sport, Medicine, Ethics [Paperback]

The ethics of sports medicine is an important emerging area within biomedical ethics. The professionalization of medical support services in sport and continuing debates around issues such as performance-enhancing technologies or the health and welfare of athletes mean that all practitioners in sport, as well as researchers with an interest in sports ethics, need to develop a clear understanding of the ethical aspects of the sportmedicine nexus.

This timely collection of articles explores the conceptual and practical issues that shape and define ethics in sports medicine. Examining central topics such as consent, confidentiality, pain, doping and genetic technology, this book establishes an important baseline for future academic and professional work in this area.

1. Locating the Ethics in Sport Medicine Ethics  SECTION I: Sports Medicine as an Ethical Practice  1. Why Sports Medicine is notMedicine  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 notto 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 lƒC