SPORTS ETHICS AND VIOLENCE

Ethics in sports medicine--the sports physician.

There are problems about the limitations of medical skills, both generally and in the individual case. In sport every coach and athlete is almost uninterested in present knowledge and its limits. The coach only starts looking for new aids at the borders of the present knowledge. Therefore, the doctor is in the land of speculation, risk, research and new ground, new theory and new fact. In pract...

Ethics in sports medicine.

All physicians are faced at some time with fundamental challenges while striving to respect the principle canons which define a physician's ethical code. These canons are: 1. Primacy of patient interests, 2. Patient confidentiality, 3, Informed consent, and 4. Maintenance of a high standard of care. Athletes, because of their focus on performance, often present unique situations which lead to e...

Computers, ethics, and collective violence

It is the intention of the Journal of Systems and Software to publish, from time to time, articles cut from a different mold. This is one in that series. The object of the Controversy Corner articles is not so much to present info~ation as to stimulate thought. Topics chosen for this coverage are not traditional formal discussions of research work, but rather are informal presentations of key i...

BACKGROUND PAPER Sports science and medicine: ethics

Racism in Sports: A Question of Ethics