Sport is one of the first areas in which enhancement has become commonplace. It is also one of the first areas in which the use of enhancement technologies has been heavily regulated. Some have thus seen sport as a testing ground for arguments about whether to permit enhancement. However, I argue that there are fairness-based objections to enhancement in sport that do not apply as strongly in some other areas of human activity. Thus, I claim that there will often be a stronger case for permitting enhancement outside of sport than for permitting enhancement in sport. I end by considering some methodological implications of this conclusion.

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Enhancement in Sport, and Enhancement outside Sport
Thomas Douglas
1University of Oxford
Citation Information: Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology. Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages –, ISSN (Online) 1941-6008, DOI: 10.2202/1941-6008.1000, December 2007
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Keywords: enhancement; doping; sport; sports medicine; fairness


















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