Sport, medicine, ethics

• Main Author: McNamee, M. J.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
• Subjects: Sports medicine > Moral and ethical aspects.; Athletes > Health and hygiene.; Medical ethics.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

"The ethics of sports medicine is an important emerging area within biomedical ethics. The professionalisation 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 i...

Table of Contents:

• pt. 1. Sports medicine as an ethical practice
• pt. 2. Professional ethics and sports medicine
• pt. 3. Ethically significant concepts in sports medicine: health, wellbeing and harm
• pt. 4. Doping and the ethics of performance enhancement
• pt. 5. Genetics and the future of sports medicine.