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.386-387

CONGRATULATIONS!

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