Boxing: an issue of medical ethics?
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The ring kills. Without producing carnage like road traffic, it is nevertheless fatal for a considerable number of boxers. According to statistics, 357 boxers have fallen victim to the ring since the war, with an annual average of ten boxers, amateurs and professionals. A trickle, a slow haemorrhage. Enough, however, to ask whether something can or should be done to prevent those deaths. When a boxer falls into a coma or dies in the course of a fight, the controversy between boxing abolitionists and anti-abolitionists flares up for a moment; then the issue slips out of the field of interest, and is soon forgotten.
Source: Medicina e Morale
Author: Sandro Spinsanti
Institution: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Language: English
Subfield: Safety Research
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4402875966