Good Sport: Why Our Games Matter -- And How Doping Undermines Them

In this provocative exploration of what draws us to sport as participants and spectators, Tom Murray argues that the values and meanings embedded within our games provide the guidance we need to make difficult decisions about fairness and performance-enhancing technologies. Simply saying that using performance-enhancing drugs is against the rules begs essential questions. The people who play and govern sport create the rules; rules can be changed. Technologies such as fiberglass vaulting poles and hinged skates enhance athletes' performance, not just drugs. Why are some technologies accepted in sport while performance-enhancing drugs are forbidden? Would athletes' health be protected better if at least some performance-enhancing drugs were permitted under doctors' supervision? 'Good Sport' reveals what we really value in sport and how the reckless use of biomedical enhancements undermines those values.

• | Author: Thomas H. Murray
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 02, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 217 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Philosophy
• | ISBN-10: 0190687983
• | ISBN-13: 9780190687984