Values in Sport (Ethics and Sport Book Series)

✍ Scribed by C. Tamburrini

Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 257
Edition: annotated edition
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

How will sport keep pace with current scientific and biological advances?Is the possibility of the 'bionic athlete' that far away and is this notion as bad as it might first appear?Is our fascination with sport winners fascistoid? Questions such as these and many others are posed and examined by the contributors to this volume. Some are sceptical of future developments in sport and demand radical reforms to halt progress, others are more optimistic and propose that sport should adapt to new advances just as other realms of the cultural sphere have to.Some of the topics examined here, such as the genetic engineering of athletes, and the significance of the public's fascination with sport winners, are being discussed for the first time, whilst others such as sex segregation, nationalism and doping are being revisited and reintroduced onto the agenda after a period of suggestive silence.This book provides the reader with a deep insight into the moral and ethical value we place on sport in today's society. Challenging and demanding, its contributors urge us to think again about current sports practices and the future of sport as a cultural phenomenon.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Notes on contributors......Page 8
Series editors' preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction......Page 12
Elitism......Page 18
Is it fascistoid to admire sports heroes? TORBJRN TNNSJ......Page 20
Sports, fascism and the market CLAUDIO M. TAMBURRINI......Page 35
The logic of progress and the art of moderation in competitive sports SIGMUND LOLAND......Page 50
Nationalism......Page 68
Sports as the moral discourse of nations WILLIAM J. MORGAN......Page 70
A justification of moderate patriotism in sport NICHOLAS DIXON......Page 85
Patriotism in sports and in war PAUL GOMBERG......Page 98
Gender equality......Page 110
Against sexual discrimination in sports TORBJRN TNNSJ......Page 112
Gender verification in competitive sport: turning from research to action BERIT SKIRSTAD......Page 127
On the definition of 'woman' in the sport context ANGELA J. SCHNEIDER......Page 134
The rules of the game......Page 150
Against chance: a causal theory of winning in sport GUNNAR BREIVIK......Page 152
Justice and game advantage in sporting games SIGMUND LOLAND......Page 168
Spoiling: an indirect reflection of sport's moral imperative? GRAHAM MCFEE......Page 183
The scientific manufacture of winners......Page 194
A philosophical overview of the arguments on banning doping in sport ANGELA J. SCHNEIDER AND ROBERT B. BUTCHER......Page 196
What's wrong with doping? CLAUDIO M. TAMBURRINI......Page 211
Selected champions: making winners in the age of genetic technology CHRISTIAN MUNTHE......Page 228
References......Page 243
Index......Page 253

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