Book Series
Ethics and Sport
New & Published Titles:
Research Ethics in Exercise, Health and Sports Sciences
Research Ethics in Exercise, Health and Sports Sciences puts ethics at the centre of research in these rapidly expanding fields of knowledge. Placing the issues…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-29882-7 (Routledge)
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Ethics, Money and Sport
This Sporting Mammon
Written from the contrasting yet complementary perspectives of sociology and philosophy, this book explores the far-reaching ethical consequences of the runaway commodification of sport, focusing…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33339-9 (Routledge)
Pain and Injury in Sport
Social and Ethical Analysis
For elite athletes, pain and injury are normal. In a challenge to the orthodox medical model, this book makes it clear that pain and injury…
read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35704-3 (Routledge)
Genetic Technology and Sport
Ethical Questions
Will the genetic design of athletes destroy sport … or will it lead to a new and extraordinary age of athletic achievement?
Exploring a new…
read more2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34237-7 (Routledge)
Human Rights in Youth Sport
A critical review of children's rights in competitive sport
Does competitive sport respect children's human rights? Is intensive training child labour? Is competitive stress a form of child abuse?
The human rights of children have…
read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30559-4 (Routledge)
Genetically Modified Athletes
Biomedical Ethics, Gene Doping and Sport
In a provocative analysis of sport ethics and human values, Genetically Modified Athletes imagines the brave new world of sport. The internationally acclaimed book examines…
read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-29880-3 (Routledge)
Sport, Professionalism and Pain
Ethnographies of Injury and Risk
Are pain and injury managed appropriately in the environment of professional sport?
Is sports medicine a tool to empower or to disempower athletes?
David Howe considers…
read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-24730-6 (Routledge)
Sport, Rules and Values
Philosophical Investigations into the Nature of Sport
Sport, Rules and Values presents a philosophical perspective on issues concerning the character of sport. Discussion focuses on three broad uses commonly urged for rules:… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32964-4 (Routledge)
Fair Play in Sport
A Moral Norm System
Fair Play in Sport presents a critical re-working of the classic ideal of fair play and explores its practical consequences for competitive sport. By linking… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-0-419-26070-7 (Routledge)
Spoilsports
Understanding and Preventing Sexual Exploitation in Sport
Sexual exploitation in sport is a problem that has beset both male and female athletes privately for decades but which has only recently emerged as… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-0-419-25780-6 (Routledge)
Forthcoming Titles:
Watching Sport: Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotion for the Spectator
By Stephen Mumford
To be published December 15th 2009
Ethics, Knowledge and Truth in Sports Research: An Epistemology of Sport
By Graham McFee
To be published December 1st 2009
The Ethics of Sports: A Reader
Edited by Mike J. McNamee
To be published October 10th 2009
Exercise and Eating Disorders: An Ethical and Legal Analysis
By Simona Giordano
To be published August 1st 2009
The Ethics of Doping and Anti-Doping: To Redeem the Soul of Sport
By Verner Moller
To be published June 1st 2009
The Ethics of Doping and Anti-Doping: To Redeem the Soul of Sport
By Verner Moller
To be published June 1st 2009