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This paper develops an understanding of the chief narrative roles sports play, and manifested in events such as the Olympic Games, and the Soccer World Cup, in showing how the unfolding stories the lives of individual people are bound up with the unfolding stories of the different nations and...

Author(s)
Morgan, W. J.
Publisher
Human Kinetics Publishers, Champaign, USA
Citation
Ethics in sport, 2001, pp 370-392
Abstract

This paper presents the case against boxing. Two reasons for prohibiting boxing are suggested: protection of the boxers from harm by banning the sport; and the practice of boxing may have social consequences that are harmful not just to boxers, but to others as well. The aspects discussed are:...

Author(s)
Simon, R. L.
Publisher
Human Kinetics Publishers, Champaign, USA
Citation
Ethics in sport, 2001, pp 345-356
Abstract

This book examines moral imperfections in sport and other associated ethical issues. The book includes: an examination of good sportsmanship, fair play, and cheating and their true places in today's sporting environment; an ethical exploration of the moral controversy over the use of...

Author(s)
Morgan, W. J.; Meier, K. V.; Schneider, A. J.
Publisher
Human Kinetics Publishers, Champaign, USA
Citation
Ethics in sport, 2001, pp xi + 427 pp.
Abstract

This chapter contends that banning performance-enhancing drugs is morally justified in the case of youth sports in which athletes are not autonomous decision makers owing to their youth and inexperience. But in such cases, the justification for doing so is not pitched to any account of the nature...

Author(s)
Brown, W. M.
Publisher
Human Kinetics Publishers, Champaign, USA
Citation
Ethics in sport, 2007, Ed.2, pp 253-261
Abstract

This chapter points out the weakness of two main arguments for banning boxing (that boxing harms the participants and also harms larger society) because of the threats they pose to individual liberties. Nevertheless, although there might not be any good arguments to eliminate boxing, it is argued...

Author(s)
Simon, R. L.
Publisher
Human Kinetics Publishers, Champaign, USA
Citation
Ethics in sport, 2007, Ed.2, pp 379-387
Abstract

The use of drugs to enhance athletic performance in sports competition is discussed from the perspective of the moral principle of paternalism. The issue of drug use in sports by children and young people, cases which may appear to justify paternalistic choices, is first examined. The harder case...

Author(s)
Brown, W. M.
Publisher
Human Kinetics Publishers, Champaign, USA
Citation
Ethics in sport, 2001, pp 130-141
Abstract

This paper examines the viewers' admiration for the achievements of the great sports heroes (such as athletes that triumph at the Olympics), which reflects a fascistoid ideology. The author's criticism focuses on what goes on within the public watching sport on television. The main theme of the...

Author(s)
Tännsjö, T.
Publisher
Human Kinetics Publishers, Champaign, USA
Citation
Ethics in sport, 2001, pp 393-408
Abstract

This chapter rejects Keating's (see chapter 9, pp. 141-151) partitioning of sportsmanship into a moral code for sport and a merely legal code for athletics, arguing that the attitudes of participants in competitive sport properly reflect a balance of pleasure and joy and of dedication to victory....

Author(s)
Feezell, R. M.
Publisher
Human Kinetics Publishers, Champaign, USA
Citation
Ethics in sport, 2007, Ed.2, pp 153-163
Abstract

This paper is a critique of a number of arguments that are frequently made to resolve the controversy over the use of performance drugs in sports. The arguments have moral as well as practical aspects, focusing as they do on athletes' rights and principles of liberty or of avoiding harm. The issues ...

Author(s)
Brown, W. M.
Publisher
Human Kinetics Publishers, Champaign, USA
Citation
Ethics in sport, 2001, pp 142-168
Abstract

This paper focuses on the challenges to use the principles of sport ethics to evaluate the ethical status of boxing. Two approaches were presented to answer the question whether boxing is a sport. First, philosophical approach asks if boxing fits the logical requirements for an activity to be...

Author(s)
Schneider, A.; Butcher, R.
Publisher
Human Kinetics Publishers, Champaign, USA
Citation
Ethics in sport, 2001, pp 357-369

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