Download or read book Philosophie du dopage written by Jean-Noël Missa and published by Presses Universitaires de France - PUF. This book was released on 2011 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascination pour les différences au milieu d'une revendication d'égalité : tel est le paradoxe du sport de compétition que Coubertin avait lui-même fort bien repéré. On glorifie d'un côté l'esprit sportif (son fair-play, le sens de l'honneur, de l'effort, du combat loyal équitable) et, de l'autre côté, on cherche à identifier et à accroître les petites différences qui vont, in fine, donner l'avantage à tel athlète plutôt qu'à tel autre. Le dopage n'est, dans cette perspective, qu'une technique parmi d'autres pour accroître ou pour mettre en valeur les différences qui sont décisives pour l'issue d'une compétition donnée. La progression de la pharmaco-chimie et des biotechnologies a rendu le débat beaucoup plus complexe car les systèmes de contrôle toxicologique ou de surveillance biologique mis en place ne garantissent pas l'efficacité des réglementations anti-dopage en cours. Dans ces conditions, l'hypocrisie est souvent de mise vis-à-vis de la problématique du dopage. Car si les contraintes que subissent les athlètes sont fortes, la logique "citius-altius-fortius" est omniprésente. Et le positionnement de la médecine du sport est toujours ambivalent ; le discours est opposé au dopage mais les actes vont dans le sens d'une aide à l'amélioration de la performance. L'actualité suggère que les discours sur l'esprit du sport, et plus généralement le pompiérisme moralisateur dont font preuve les voix autorisées, débouchent sur un double langage. On brandit bien haut le drapeau de la moralité sportive tout en sacrifiant dans les faits au principe qui veut que le gagnant emporte toute la mise. Ce double langage peut créer une réelle souffrance chez des sportifs de haut niveau sincèrement passionnés. Les essais contenus dans cet ouvrage s'intéressent aux questions éthiques et philosophiques nouvelles que suscite la problématique du dopage dans une société de plus en plus ouverte aux techniques d'améliorations de soi en dehors du sport.

Download or read book Inquiring into Human Enhancement written by Sylvie Allouche and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies. This interdisciplinary book is devoted to clarifying the underlying ambiguities of these debates, and to proposing novel ways of exploring what human enhancement means and understanding what practices, goals and justifications it entails.

Download or read book Athletic Enhancement Human Nature and Ethics written by Jan Tolleneer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-09 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides an in-depth discussion on the human nature concept from different perspectives and from different disciplines, analyzing its use in the doping debate and researching its normative overtones. The relation between natural talent and enhanced abilities is scrutinized within a proper conceptual and theoretical framework: is doping to be seen as a factor of the athlete’s dehumanization or is it a tool to fulfill his/her aspirations to go faster, higher and stronger? Which characteristics make sports such a peculiar subject of ethical discussion and what are the, both intrinsic and extrinsic, moral dangers and opportunities involved in athletic enhancement? This volume combines fundamental philosophical anthropological reflection with applied ethics and socio-cultural and empirical approaches. Furthermore guidelines will be presented to decision- and policy-makers on local, national and international levels. Zooming in on the intrinsic issue of what is valuable about our homo sapiens biological condition, this volume devotes only scant attention to the specific issue of natural talent and why such talent is appreciated so differently than biotechnological origins of ability. In addition, specific aspects of sports such as its competitive nature and its direct display of bodily prowess provide good reason to single out the issue of natural athletic talent for sustained ethical scrutiny.​

Download or read book Ethics and Sport in Europe written by Dominique Bodin and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defending ethics in sport is vital in order to combat the problems of corruption, violence, drugs, extremism and other forms of discrimination it is currently facing. Sport reflects nothing more and nothing less than the societies in which it takes place. However, if sport is to continue to bring benefits for individuals and societies, it cannot afford to neglect its ethical values or ignore these scourges. The major role of the Council of Europe and the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS) in addressing the new challenges to sports ethics was confirmed by the 11th Council of Europe Conference of Ministers responsible for Sport, held in Athens on 11 and 12 December 2008. A political impetus was given on 16 June 2010 by the Committee of Ministers, with the adoption of an updated version of the Code of Sports Ethics (Recommendation CM/Rec(2010)9), emphasising the requisite co-ordination between governments and sports organisations. The EPAS prepared the ministerial conference and stepped up its work in an international conference organised with the University of Rennes, which was attended by political leaders, athletes, researchers and officials from the voluntary sector. The key experiences described in the conference and the thoughts that it prompted are described in this publication. All the writers share the concern that the end result should be practical action - particularly in terms of the setting of standards - that falls within the remit of the EPAS and promotes the Council of Europe's core values.

Download or read book Jouer Selon Les Regles Du Jeu Playing by the Rules of the Game Spielen Nach Den Spielregeln written by Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Games form an integral part of life and the rules that determine how they are to be played provide us with rich insights into the specific nature of cultures. Comprising theoretical, philosophical, and legal discussions, the contexts of game playing are comprehensively examined in essays which range widely through time and space. In focussing on the topic of game playing this volume of essays - which stems from a Transcultura symposium on the transcultural key-concept of "the rules of the game" - engages in a fresh way with the field of sports as a unique and yet shared cultural phenomenon.

Download or read book The Winner Take All Society written by Robert Frank and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disney chairman Michael Eisner topped the 1993 Business Week chart of America's highest-paid executives, his $203 million in earnings roughly 10,000 times that of the lowest paid Disney employee. During the last two decades, the top one percent of U.S. earners captured more than 40 percent of the country's total earnings growth, one of the largest shifts any society has endured without a revolution or military defeat. Robert H. Frank and Philip J. Cook argue that behind this shift lies the spread of "winner-take-all markets"—markets in which small differences in performance give rise to enormous differences in reward. Long familiar in sports and entertainment, this payoff pattern has increasingly permeated law, finance, fashion, publishing, and other fields. The result: in addition to the growing gap between rich and poor, we see important professions like teaching and engineering in aching need of more talent. This relentless emphasis on coming out on top—the best-selling book, the blockbuster film, the Super Bowl winner—has molded our discourse in ways that many find deeply troubling.

Download or read book Revue de Th ologie Et de Philosophie written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Revue philosophique de la France et de l tranger written by Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nutrition and Performance in Sport written by Institut national du sport, de l'expertise et de la performance (France) and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of Fatigue written by Georges Vigarello and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Stress,” “burn out,” “mental overload”: the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed an unrelenting expansion of the meaning of fatigue. The tentacles of exhaustion insinuated themselves into every aspect of our lives, from the workplace to the home, from our relationships with friends and family to the most intimate aspects of our lives. All around us are the signs of a “burn-out society,” a society in which fatigue has become the norm. How did this happen? This pioneering book explores the rich and little-known history of fatigue from the Middle Ages to the present. Vigarello shows that our understanding of fatigue, the words used to describe it, and the symptoms and explanations of it have varied greatly over time, reflecting changing social mores and broader aspects of social and political life. He argues that the increased autonomy of people in Western societies (whether genuine or assumed), the positing of a more individualized self, and the ever expanding ideal of independence and freedom have constantly made it more difficult for us to withstand anything that constrains or limits us. This painful contradiction causes weariness as well as dissatisfaction. Fatigue spreads and becomes stronger, imperceptibly permeating everything, seeping into ordinary moments and unexpected places. Ranging from the history of war, religion and work to the history of the body, the senses and intimacy, this history of fatigue shows how something that seems permanently centered in our bodies has, over the course of centuries, also been ingrained in our minds, in the end affecting the innermost aspects of the self.

Download or read book Olympic Education written by Roland Naul and published by Meyer & Meyer Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Olympic Education" is not only a text book for students and teachers in physical and sport education but also for course instructors and coaches in children's youth sport programmes, as well as for executives in sports federations. It answers the question, what the term "Olympic" really means in the broader context of the Olympic Games movement and as a global purpose and new challenge for a balanced physical, social and moral education. Olympic education has a traditional vision and an important future mission that is relevant for all children and youths, in schools as well as in sport clubs. In five parts and fifteen chapters, the book shows why the Olympic ideals are a modern challenge not only for a new physical and sport education but also for the development of essential life skills for today. It introduces pedagogical and didactical fundamentals for an Olympic education, in order to bring motor abilities, social behaviour and moral actions in sports and everyday life back together again - in the mind, learning and actions of children and youths, but also of grown-ups in the social settings where young people live.

Download or read book Genetically Modified Athletes written by Andy Miah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to examine the profound ethical issues raised by the use of genetic technologies in sports, asking whether sporting authorities can, or even should, protect sport from genetic modification.

Download or read book Dying to Win written by Barrie Houlihan and published by Conseil de l'Europe. This book was released on 1999 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This up-to-date overview of drug taking in sport is illustrated with specific cases in various pan-European and world sports events, and reflects the extent to which athletes will jeapordise their health to attain glory.

Download or read book International Judicial Legitimacy written by Hélène Ruiz Fabri and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These texts on the legitimacy of international courts were framed as a direct reaction to arguments put forward in the book "In Whose Name?" by Armin von Bogdandy und Ingo Venzke. The subjects ranged from a comparison between international organizations and international courts and how they can contribute to democratize international law to assessing the democratic legitimacy of international human rights courts. Therefore the collection is dealing with both theoretical and practical questions regarding the legitimacy of international courts and how such problems relate to fundamental problems of our times.

Download or read book Sport Health and Drugs written by Ivan Waddington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do many athletes risk their careers by taking performance enhancing drugs? Do the highly competitive pressures elite sports teach athletes to win at any cost? In order to understand the complex relationships between sport and other aspects of society, it is necessary to strip away our preconceptions of what sport is, and to examine, in as detached a manner as possible, the way in which the world of sport actually functions. This fully updated edition of Ivan Waddington’s classic introduction to drugs in sport examines the key terms and key issues in sport, drugs and performance and is designed to help new students explore these controversial subjects, now so central to the study of modern sport. The book addresses topics such as: the emergence of drugs in sport and changing patterns of use the development of an objective, sociological understanding sports law, policy and administration WADA, NGB’s and the sporting federations case studies of football and cycling the case of sports medicine. An Introduction to Drugs in Sport: Addicted to Winning is a landmark work in sports studies. Using interview transcripts, case studies and press cuttings to ground theory in reality, students and lecturers alike will find this an immensely readable and enriching resource.

Download or read book International Review for the Sociology of Sport written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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