Performance enhancement?: Gene doping

Ethics of Performance Enhancement in Sport: Drugs and Gene Doping

Current dogma is that performance enhancement in sport is wrong. As Pound’s response shows, this dogma is predicated mainly on the view that performance enhancement violates this ‘humanistic’ conception of what sport should be. In this chapter, we will argue that performance enhancement is inevitable and unpoliceable, that it is not against the spirit of sport and that we should remove anti-dop...

The use of genes for performance enhancement: doping or therapy?

Recent biotechnological advances have permitted the manipulation of genetic sequences to treat several diseases in a process called gene therapy. However, the advance of gene therapy has opened the door to the possibility of using genetic manipulation (GM) to enhance athletic performance. In such 'gene doping', exogenous genetic sequences are inserted into a specific tissue, altering cellular g...

Understanding the psychology behind performance - enhancement by doping

Gene doping: a review of performance-enhancing genetics.

Unethical athletes and their mentors have long arrogated scientific and medical advances to enhance athletic performance, thus gaining a dishonest competitive advantage. Building on advances in genetics, a new threat arises from athletes using gene therapy techniques in the same manner that some abused performance-enhancing drugs were used. Gene doping, as this is known, may produce spectacular...

Measuring explicit attitude toward doping: Review of the psychometric properties of the Performance Enhancement Attitude Scale

Objectives: Doping use is seldom an accident – it is a deliberate action often requiring considerable commitment. Attitudes are known to influence this type of action and hence they are likely to be predictive of doping-related behaviours. To measure ‘doping attitude’, a valid and reliable tool is