By Cansu Canca [In Part I, I considered, and rejected, arguments that doping harms the athletes and treats human nature wrongly.] Spirit of sport Let us now turn to the third objection: the use of PEDs destroys the spirit of sport. Of course, “spirit of sport” is a rather nebulous concept. Here is what the…
By Cansu Canca Sports news has a permanent section now: the doping news. Less than a month ago, Gay and Powell (“the second and the fourth fastest men of all time”) also tested positive for banned substances. What used to be a scandalous piece of news (maybe with its final anti-hero being Lance Armstrong) became…
By Daniel Goldberg {SHAMELESS SELF-PROMOTION ALERT} A new article of mine is out in the Journal of Legal Medicine entitled “Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, the National Football League, and the Manufacture of Doubt: An Ethical, Legal, and Historical Analysis.” I’ve written on the subject before, but in case anyone is interested, here is the Abstract…
By Yoni Schenker [Disclaimer: I am not involved in this, and the views expressed here are entirely my own.] Concussions and Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) have been the dominant subject of concern in the sports world recently, and for good reason, but I would like to highlight an often overlooked and more general problem. Our athletes…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan and his colleagues at the NYU Sports & Society Program have an interesting new essay up at Forbes: Obama Administration: Playing Sports Is Now A Civil Right The United States Department of Education has released aguidance requiring schools to make “reasonable modifications” to include students with disabilities in mainstream athletics programs or provide parallel options.…
By Scott Burris, JD The National Football League has given the National Institutes of Health $30 million for research on traumatic brain injury. There is much we don’t know about the causes, effects, prevention and treatment of sports-related brain injury – but that doesn’t mean that we should put all our eggs into the basket…
