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Sport, Society, and Anti-Doping Policy: An Ethical Overview

Andrew Bloodworth Orcid Logo, Michael McNamee Orcid Logo

Acute Topics in Anti-Doping, Volume: 62, Pages: 177 - 185

Swansea University Authors: Andrew Bloodworth Orcid Logo, Michael McNamee Orcid Logo

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The purpose of this chapter is to provide an overview of the philosophical and ethical underpinnings of anti-doping policy. The nature of sport and its gratuitous logic is explored. The doping rules in sport, such as the Prohibited List, are ways of drawing a line to facilitate a certain sort of com...

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Published in: Acute Topics in Anti-Doping
ISBN: 978-3-318-06043-0 978-3-318-06044-7
ISSN: 0254-5020 1662-2812
Published: S. Karger AG 2017
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