Books in the Ethics and Sport series

Doping in Cycling provides an up-to-date overview of the knowledge about doping and anti-doping in cycling. Featuring cross-disciplinary contributions from international leading scholars, it critically addresses overarching questions, and topical issues being raised in the agenda of policy-makers at the global level.

This book explains how a phenomenological approach is capable of revealing the nature and meanings of sport in ways that are beyond the reach of the sciences. It has a 'didactic' intention - to present and discuss ideas and tools developed in the phenomenological tradition in order to illuminate issues in sport, so as to be understandable for those without any previous knowledge or background.This book was originally published as a special issue of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.

Does competitive sport respect children's human rights? Is intensive training child labour? Is competitive stress a form of child abuse? This book offers analysis of some real problems within youth sport and argues that the future development of sport depends on the creation of a child-centred sport system.

Examines the information which is perceived by the human visual system and the way it is utilised to support actions in sport. This book focuses on the diversity of sport-related studies. It covers: cognition in action - indirect theories of perception and action; direct theories of perception and action; and, skill acquisition in sport.

Exploring a territory in sport and ethics, leading authorities from the world of academia and sports administration represent voices in this book from the various sides of the 'gene doping' controversy and provide discussions of key areas.

This title is the first to examine the profound ethical issues raised by the use of genetic technologies in sports.

This title presents a philosophical perspective on some issues concerning the character of sport. Central questions for the text are motivated from real life sporting examples as described in newspaper reports.

For elite athletes, pain and injury are normal. This book shows that pain and injury cannot be understood in terms of physiology alone, and examines the influence of social and cultural processes on how athletes experience pain and injury. It discusses: pain, injury and performance; the deliberate infliction of pain and injury; and more.

With every positive drugs test the credibility and veracity of modern elite sport is diminished. This book critiques anti-doping policy and practice. It argues that the fight against doping - promoted as an initiative to cleanse sport of cheats - is at heart nothing less than a battle to save sport from itself.

Offers a critical examination of the rise of commercialism in sport, exploring the ethical consequences of the evolution of sports into a commodity worth many billions of pounds worldwide.

This book provides the reader with a deep insight into the moral and ethical value we place on sport in today's society. It urges us to think again about current sports practices and the future of sport as a cultural phenomenon.

Spoilsports offers the first systematic theory of sexual exploitation and abuse within sport. This is an invaluable resource for both academics and policy makers seeking to understand and deal with issues of sexual exploitation in sport

An in-depth, up-to-date text for fair play, a topic which is given a considerable amount of attention in modules such as issues in sport and philosophy of sport.

An in-depth, up-to-date text for fair play, a topic which is given a considerable amount of attention in modules such as issues in sport and philosophy of sport.

Eating disorders (EDs) have become a social epidemic in the developed world. This book addresses the close links between EDs and exercise, helping us to understand why people with EDs often exercise to excessive and potentially harmful levels.

The book aims to establish a critical dialogue between sports ethicists and bioethicists across the range of sporting disciplines at elite level. This book was published as a special issue in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.

This volume is comprised of a range of essays by international scholars from philosophy, pedagogy and adapted physical activity who explore, critically, a range of ethical issues.

Argues that the high-level research into sport requires a rationale for one's methodological choices, and that such a rationale requires an understanding of the connection between the practicalities of researching sport and the philosophical assumptions which underpin them.

This book provides the reader with a deep insight into the moral and ethical value we place on sport in today's society. It urges us to think again about current sports practices and the future of sport as a cultural phenomenon.

This exciting new study explores ethical dilemmas in the relationship between sporting performance, sports medicine and the health of the athlete.

The philosophy of sport has more to tell than about elite competitions, it is about people's everyday doing. Sport for all delivers material for a philosophy of practice, and of living democracy - as a phenomenology of people in movement.

Is the role of the sports coach simply to improve sporting performance? What are the key ethical issues in sports coaching practice? This book argues that the coaching process is an inherently moral one with an inescapably ethical dimension, involving intense relationships between players and coaches.

Is the role of the sports coach simply to improve sporting performance? What are the key ethical issues in sports coaching practice? This book argues that the coaching process is an inherently moral one with an inescapably ethical dimension, involving intense relationships between players and coaches.