Thomas H. Murray is President Emeritus of The Hastings Center. He served as Presidential appointee on the National Bioethics Advisory Commission and as chair of its Genetics subcommittee. He has been president of the Society for Health and Human Values and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and chaired the Ethical Issues Review Panel for the World Anti-Doping Agency. He is currently a member of the Independent IAAF Ethics Board.

A must read for anyone who works in anti-doping, but readers from disciplines such as bioethics and public health ethics may find it equally interesting. Doping is not restricted to sports. The growing demand by the healthy for cognitive and performance enhancement, for example in education and at work, presents similar challenges for society. Some of Murray's ethical considerations and lessons around doping might, in his own words, "help us deal sensibly and wisely with promises of technological enhancement in other realms of human life.

• Introduction Chapter 1: The Slippery Slope to DopingChapter 2: What Sprt Values - Natural Talents and How We Perfect ThemChapter 3: Rules and Meanings Chapter 4: What's Fair - Aristotle, the Paralympics, and the Pursuit of Excellence Chapter 5: What's Fair - Geography and OpportunityChapter 6: Gender, Fairness, and MeaningChapter 7: Using--and Misusing--Health and SafetyChapter 8: Is Anti-Doping Possible? What Are the AlternativesChapter 9: On the Meaning and Future of Sport Bibliography

Thomas H. Murray is President Emeritus of The Hastings Center. He served as Presidential appointee on the National Bioethics Advisory Commission and as chair of its Genetics subcommittee. He has been president of the Society for Health and Human Values and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and chaired the Ethical Issues Review Panel for the World Anti-Doping Agency. He is currently a member of the Independent IAAF Ethics Board.

A must read for anyone who works in anti-doping, but readers from disciplines such as bioethics and public health ethics may find it equally interesting. Doping is not restricted to sports. The growing demand by the healthy for cognitive and performance enhancement, for example in education and at work, presents similar challenges for society. Some of Murray's ethical considerations and lessons around doping might, in his own words, "help us deal sensibly and wisely with promises of technological enhancement in other realms of human life.

• Introduction Chapter 1: The Slippery Slope to DopingChapter 2: What Sprt Values - Natural Talents and How We Perfect ThemChapter 3: Rules and Meanings Chapter 4: What's Fair - Aristotle, the Paralympics, and the Pursuit of Excellence Chapter 5: What's Fair - Geography and OpportunityChapter 6: Gender, Fairness, and MeaningChapter 7: Using--and Misusing--Health and SafetyChapter 8: Is Anti-Doping Possible? What Are the AlternativesChapter 9: On the Meaning and Future of Sport Bibliography

Thomas H. Murray is President Emeritus of The Hastings Center. He served as Presidential appointee on the National Bioethics Advisory Commission and as chair of its Genetics subcommittee. He has been president of the Society for Health and Human Values and the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and chaired the Ethical Issues Review Panel for the World Anti-Doping Agency. He is currently a member of the Independent IAAF Ethics Board.

A must read for anyone who works in anti-doping, but readers from disciplines such as bioethics and public health ethics may find it equally interesting. Doping is not restricted to sports. The growing demand by the healthy for cognitive and performance enhancement, for example in education and at work, presents similar challenges for society. Some of Murray's ethical considerations and lessons around doping might, in his own words, "help us deal sensibly and wisely with promises of technological enhancement in other realms of human life.

• Introduction Chapter 1: The Slippery Slope to DopingChapter 2: What Sprt Values - Natural Talents and How We Perfect ThemChapter 3: Rules and Meanings Chapter 4: What's Fair - Aristotle, the Paralympics, and the Pursuit of Excellence Chapter 5: What's Fair - Geography and OpportunityChapter 6: Gender, Fairness, and MeaningChapter 7: Using--and Misusing--Health and SafetyChapter 8: Is Anti-Doping Possible? What Are the AlternativesChapter 9: On the Meaning and Future of Sport Bibliography