The Ethics of Sport explores moral issues that arise in sports, especially competitive athletics, in a manner that is accessible not only to sports fans or participants but also to those critical of sports or simply interested in an introduction to the kind of moral issues raised by the practice of athletics. The issues considered range from the more abstract, such as the importance that should be assigned to winning in sports, to specific controversies such as argumentsover the use of performance enhancing drugs, the nature of gender equity, and the evaluation of violence in competition. The book explores different sides of these issues and suggests reasonable resolutions to the kinds of ethical questions prevalent in the practice of sports.
Acknowledgements; Prologue; Chapter One: The Moral Significance of Sport; Chapter Two: Winning, Cheating, and the Ethics of Competition; Chapter Three: Health, Safety, and Violence in Competitive Sport; Chapter Four: Enhancement, Technology, and Fairness in Competitive Sport; Chapter Five: Competitive Sport: Education or Mis-Education?; Chapter Six: Sports, Equity, and Society; Chapter Seven: Concluding Comment: The Two Sides of the Force or are Sports so Great After All?; Recommended Readings and References;
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