Is Fair Play Compatible with Doping in Sport?
Format
Funding
The Swedish National Centre for Research in Sports (Centrum för idrottsforskning).
Time table
2008-2012
Aims
This PhD project studies if, and in what sense doping is incompatible with fairness in sport and whether notions of fairness and fair play may function as a foundation upon which arguments opposing doping in sport can based on in a constructive manner.
Doping sometimes is perceived as an admissible method used in order to render the sport fairer by leveling an otherwise unfair dispersal of natural talents in sport. In this view, those with less talent are given a possibility to compensate by means of doping and this will make sport fairer. However, the term fairness seems to have different meanings in the arguments concerning doping in general and gene-doping in particular.
This project constitutes an attempt to achieve an “inside-out” perspective in regard to ethical and philosophical questions concerning performance enhancement in sport. This entails that by understanding sport as a form of social activity, and by placing this activity within the broader social context, this project aims at addressing ethical and philosophical issues by considering, as a starting point, qualities that are inherent to sport.
Publications
Atry A, Hansson MG, Kihlbom U, Gene Doping and the Responsibility of Bioethicists, Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 2011;5(2):149-160.Contact and more information
- Ashkan Atry, PhD Student
Supervisors:
- Ulrik Kihlbom, PhD, Senior lecturer, CRB
- Mats G. Hansson, Professor of biomedical ethics, CRB
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