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• Title:Genetically modified athletes : biomedical ethics, gene doping and sport / Andy Miah.
  
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• Author/Creator:Miah, Andy, 1975-
  
• Published/Created:London ; New York : Routledge, 2005, ©2004.
  

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• Library of Congress Subjects:Doping in sports--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Genetic engineering--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Medical genetics--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Sports medicine--Moral and ethical aspects.
  
• Description:xviii, 208 p. ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Ethics and sport.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [186]-202) and index.
  
• ISBN:0415298792 (hbk.)
  0415298806 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Pt. I. Anti-doping and performance enhancement
  Introduction : why genetics now?
  1. Why not dope? : it's still about the health
  2. Forget drugs and the ideology of harmonisation
  Pt. II. Conceptualising genetics in sport
  3. What is possible? : imminent applications for the genetically modified athlete
  4. Interests, politics and ways of reasoning
  Pt. III. ethical status of genetic modification in sport
  5. Humanness, dignity and autonomy
  6. Personhood, identity and the ethics of authenticity
  7. Virus, disease, illness, health, well-being ... and enhancement
  8. Unfair advantages and other harms
  Pt. IV. Genetically modified athletes
  9. Enhancing, altering or manipulating people?
  10. Sport needs genetic modification
  11. Conclusions and implications.