Gene Doping in Sports, Volume 51: The Science and Ethics of Genetically Modified Athletes (Advances in Genetics) | 
 enlarge | Creators: Angela J. Schneider, Theodore Friedmann
Publisher: Academic Press
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 128
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0120176513
Dewey Decimal Number: 174.957
EAN: 9780120176519
ASIN: 0120176513
Publication Date: March 20, 2006
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Advances in genetics have begun to deliver on their promise of new and improved approaches to the prevention and treatment of human disease, including the gene-based therapeutics. The international sports community has begun to recognize the potential harmful use of gene transfer technology by athletes. The task of monitoring and controlling sports doping must be a truly cooperative effort, involving the cooperation of a range of local, national, and international organizations. There are very serious broad social and ethical issues at stake that relate to our definition of sports and its role in our society, as well as the social and ethical principles that are challenged or breached through sport doping, determining which forms of performance enhancement - in sport or any other realm of human activity - are acceptable, and what makes the enhancement of sport performance different from enhancement in other areas of human activity (e.g., cosmetic surgery, mood and learning enhancement through drugs, and drug-based "treatment" of physical and intellectual changes in normal aging process). This book tackles all these issues and more, serving as the first such focused treatment of this increasingly important topic, which has broad-based implications for science, medicine, sports, and society.
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how much? July 23, 2008
I'd love to give this book a read, as the subject of doping in sports lacks a full frank discussion of the current state of the capabilities of genetic doping. But can someone please explain to me why this book costs $150.00?? For that much, it better dope me itself - I expect at least one minute off my next 40k time trial, otherwise, I ain't buyin'.
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