Series: Ethics and Sport

Advances in genetics and related biotechnologies are having a profound effect on sport, raising important ethical questions about the limits and possibilities of the human body. Drawing on real case studies and grounded in rigorous scientific evidence, Bioethics, Genetics and Sport offers an ethical critique of current practices and explores the intersection of genetics, ethics and sport. Written by two...

Drawing on rich empirical material from elite French sport, Doping in Elite Sports offers a detailed history of how the concept of doping evolved from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. As the first study to span the period from 1950 to 2010, it sheds new light on the extraordinary world of elite sport in France—a world governed by its...