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Enhancement in Sport, and Enhancement outside Sport

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: Sport is one of the first areas in which enhancement has become commonplace. It is also one of the first areas in which the use of enhancement technologies has been heavily regulated. Some have thus seen sport as a testing ground for arguments about whether to permit enhancement. However, I argue that there are fairness-based objections to enhancement in sport that do not apply as strongly in some other areas of human activity. Thus, I claim that there will often be a stronger case for permitting enhancement outside of sport than for permitting enhancement in sport. I end by considering some methodological implications of this conclusion.

Source: Studies in Ethics Law and Technology

DOI: 10.2202/1941-6008.1000

Author: Thomas Douglas

Institution: University of Oxford

Language: English

Topic: Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Wellcome Trust

Awards: Distributing the costs of illness, injury and genetic disadvantage: the role of causation and the impact of medical science., G4475125748