ETHICS IN SPORT Week 12
What you need to know… Be able to analyse and evaluate ethical dilemmas in sport Performance enhancing drugs Gene therapy Painkillers IV fluids
Ethics Ethics: the practice of making principled choices between right and wrong Ethics in sport
Ethical Issues Performance enhancing drugs and methods Genetic doping, therapy and manipulation Use of pain killing injections to enable athlete to continue performing Use of science and technology
Ergogenic Aids Ergogenic: performance enhancing Legal practices Intravenous drips Local anaesthetic injections Illegal practices Performance enhancing drugs Genetic therapy and manipulation
Intravenous Drips Directly inserting fluids into a vein to speed up rehydration and recovery Case study
Local Anaesthetic Injections Otherwise known as painkillers Masks the effects of pain Case study
Performance Enhancing Drugs Why may an athlete decide to take performance enhancing drugs?
Performance Enhancing Drugs Common drugs in sport See attached table
Genetic Therapy & Manipulation “Non-therapeutic use of cells, genes, genetic elements or the modification of gene expression, having the capacity to enhance athletic performance is prohibited” (WADA, 2005) Ability to improve an athlete’s suitability to a sport as well as their training, recovery and performance
Activities IV case study Painkillers case study Activity 7, p.383 Read ‘team dream genes’, p
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