In a provocative analysis of sport ethics and human values, Genetically Modified Athletes imagines the brave new world of sport. The internationally acclaimed book examines this issue at a crucial time in its theorisation, questioning the very cornerstone of sporting and medical ethics, asking wheth
Genetically modified athletes : biomedical ethics, gene doping and sport
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 227
- Series
- Ethics and sport
- Category
- Library
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