Download Genetically Modified Athletes full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Genetically Modified Athletes ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
| Author | : Andy Miah |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2004-08-02 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1134425996 |
This is the first book to examine the profound ethical issues raised by the use of genetic technologies in sports, asking whether sporting authorities can, or even should, protect sport from genetic modification.
| Author | : Angela J. Schneider |
| Publisher | : Elsevier |
| Total Pages | : 129 |
| Release | : 2006-03-14 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0080463479 |
Advances in genetics have begun to deliver on their promise of new and improved approaches to the prevention and treatment of human disease, including the gene-based therapeutics. The international sports community has begun to recognize the potential harmful use of gene transfer technology by athletes. The task of monitoring and controlling sports doping must be a truly cooperative effort, involving the cooperation of a range of local, national, and international organizations. There are very serious broad social and ethical issues at stake that relate to our definition of sports and its role in our society, as well as the social and ethical principles that are challenged or breached through sport doping, determining which forms of performance enhancement – in sport or any other realm of human activity – are acceptable, and what makes the enhancement of sport performance different from enhancement in other areas of human activity (e.g., cosmetic surgery, mood and learning enhancement through drugs, and drug-based “treatment of physical and intellectual changes in normal aging process). This book tackles all these issues and more, serving as the first such focused treatment of this increasingly important topic, which has broad-based implications for science, medicine, sports, and society.
| Author | : Claudio Tamburrini |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 2005-11-03 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1134293410 |
A world-class collection of writers from the very top of their fields, both from the academic and the sports administration communities This is a subject that is set to provoke much debate in the world of sport, and in bio-ethics more generally This is the first book to analyze the gender specific questions that arise from GM sport
| Author | : Michael J Sandel |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2009-06-30 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0674043065 |
Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature—to enhance our genetic traits and those of our children. Although most people find at least some forms of genetic engineering disquieting, it is not easy to articulate why. What is wrong with re-engineering our nature? The Case against Perfection explores these and other moral quandaries connected with the quest to perfect ourselves and our children. Michael Sandel argues that the pursuit of perfection is flawed for reasons that go beyond safety and fairness. The drive to enhance human nature through genetic technologies is objectionable because it represents a bid for mastery and dominion that fails to appreciate the gifted character of human powers and achievements. Carrying us beyond familiar terms of political discourse, this book contends that the genetic revolution will change the way philosophers discuss ethics and will force spiritual questions back onto the political agenda. In order to grapple with the ethics of enhancement, we need to confront questions largely lost from view in the modern world. Since these questions verge on theology, modern philosophers and political theorists tend to shrink from them. But our new powers of biotechnology make these questions unavoidable. Addressing them is the task of this book, by one of America’s preeminent moral and political thinkers.
| Author | : Françoise Baylis |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2019-09-17 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0674976711 |
With the advent of CRISPR gene-editing technology, designer babies have become a reality. Françoise Baylis insists that scientists alone cannot decide the terms of this new era in human evolution. Members of the public, with diverse interests and perspectives, must have a role in determining our future as a species.
| Author | : Mike McNamee |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 158 |
| Release | : 2018-10-19 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1351585649 |
This book represents a bold statement concerning the excitement and energy of the field of sports ethics and philosophy in contemporary terms. It is comprised of a collection of commissioned essays from the leading international scholars in the field to celebrate the ten year editorship of Mike McNamee for the journal: Sport, Ethics and Philosophy. The collection includes essays familiar sport philosophers on work about the nature and nuances of sports and games playing, winning and losing, role models and strategic fouling. It also celebrates in phenomenological terms the complex and heterogeneous experience and values of sports in both phenomenological and analytic modes. Finally, it addresses the most serious threats to sport integrity and governance, in the shape of doping, and the unchecked power of sports institutions, and the charisma of sport that is at the mercy of commercialism. This book was originally published as a special issue of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.
| Author | : Michael Posthumus |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 9783318030105 |
This second edition of Genetics and Sports expands on topics previously discussed in an attempt to create an integrated and holistic understanding of the field of sports genomics. It is an update on technologies and on the role of genetics in training, performance, injury, and other exercise-related phenotypes. Ethical concerns and the importance of counselling before and after genetic testing are also addressed. It is increasingly important to understand the field of genetics and sports because of the potential to use and misuse information. All exercise scientists, sport and exercise clinicians, athletes, and coaches need to be adequately informed to ensure that genetic information is accurately and properly used. Genetics and Sports is, therefore, highly recommended to all of these groups.
| Author | : David Epstein |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2014-04-29 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 161723012X |
The New York Times bestseller – with a new afterword about early specialization in youth sports – from the author of Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. The debate is as old as physical competition. Are stars like Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, and Serena Williams genetic freaks put on Earth to dominate their respective sports? Or are they simply normal people who overcame their biological limits through sheer force of will and obsessive training? In this controversial and engaging exploration of athletic success and the so-called 10,000-hour rule, David Epstein tackles the great nature vs. nurture debate and traces how far science has come in solving it. Through on-the-ground reporting from below the equator and above the Arctic Circle, revealing conversations with leading scientists and Olympic champions, and interviews with athletes who have rare genetic mutations or physical traits, Epstein forces us to rethink the very nature of athleticism.
| Author | : Sarah Polcz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 44 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
The regulation of genetic modification is generating urgent international debate. Development of new technologies means not only new therapies, but new possibilities for enhancement. The only area with existing regulation concerning genetic enhancement is sports, where adoption is seen as imminent. “Gene doping” is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), and enforced at considerable cost, on the basis that biological innateness is essential to what is valuable in sports. As both the first and a highly visible mover, WADA's ban is set to disproportionately affect other domains.We present a normative analysis of current regulation and the first experimental study (n=1000) on US attitudes towards gene doping. Through a series of ten scenarios, we find respondents view gene doping as fundamentally different than other forms of enhancement: 79% support allowing athletes modified to have an advantage competing alongside those born with that advantage; 54% support allowing modified athletes to compete alongside unmodified athletes; 34% endorse creating a separate competitive category. This leaves only a small minority supportive of an outright ban. These results are inconsistent with the protection of biological innateness. WADA need to acknowledge that genetic modification calls into question the foundations of their prohibition decisions.Our results are consistent both with increasing acceptance of genetic modification, and with theoretical and empirical work that equality of opportunity is best achieved through minimizing the role of luck. In this view, genetic modification is a tool to reduce the inequities of the natural lottery. The development of regulation in other areas should proceed with this in mind.
| Author | : Kevin R. Stone |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 2021-12-14 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781544526768 |
Why are some octogenarians competitive athletes while others struggle to walk up the stairs? It isn't luck. It's orthopaedic science. If you're tired of doctors telling you that an injury will prevent you from playing the sports you enjoy, you'll love Dr. Kevin R. Stone's Play Forever. All great athletes get injured. Only the best of them use those injuries to come back to their sport better-fitter, faster, and stronger than before. Through Dr. Stone's revolutionary approach to sports medicine, you'll discover how injuries can lead to a lifetime of high-performance fitness and athleticism. Learn how the musculoskeletal system can be repaired through cutting-edge therapies, then honed and strengthened through semiannual fitness tests, preseason education and training programs, and regular in-season tune-ups. Backed by scientific outcome studies on orthopaedic treatments and implants, Play Forever will become your go-to health and fitness source, helping you play the sport you love to age 100 and beyond.
