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Performance-Enhancing Technologies in Sports

Ethical, Conceptual, and Scientific Issues

Herausgeber: Murray, Thomas H; Wasunna, Angela A; Maschke, Karen J

Beschreibung

This frank discussion of doping in sports includes accounts by former elite athletes and offers an illuminating exchange over the meaning and value of natural talents and genetic hierarchies and the essence of fair competition.

Autor

Thomas H. Murray is the president of The Hastings Center and an adjunct professor of bioethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He has written extensively about medical ethics and is the coeditor of Genetic Ties and the Family, also published by Johns Hopkins. Karen J. Maschke is a research scholar at The Hastings Center and the editor of Gender and American Law. Angela A. Wasunna is the assistant director of international affairs at Pfizer, Inc., and the coauthor of Medicine and the Market, also published by Johns Hopkins.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 632g
• ISBN-13: 9780801893612
• ISBN-10: 0801893615
• Artikelnr.: 26608275