Colloquy IN DEFENSE OF PROMETHEUS: SOME ETHICAL, ECONOMIC, AND REGULATORY ISSUES OF SPORTS DOPING
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A chapter in The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering, a book by Michael Sandel, the well-known Harvard political philosopher, provides a convenient stepping-off place for an analysis of the social issues involved in sports doping. The chapter is entitled “Bionic Athletes,” and despite the reference in the subtitle of the book to genetic engineering the chapter is mainly about doping rather than about genetic alteration; the author returns to the topic of doping in a later chapter, “Mastery and Gift.” By “sports doping” I mean, of course, the use of performance-enhancing drugs by athletes, though professional athletes will soon resort to genetic alteration as well or instead, because it will be harder to detect. There are other methods of athletic performance enhancement as well. Some of them, such as taking up temporary residence at a very high altitude in order to increase one’s red blood corpuscles, tremble on the edge between tolerated and reprobated methods of improving one’s athletic performance. I will focus on
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