Sports, virtues and vices
Sports, virtues and vices: morality plays
Mike McNamee
Publisher: London ; Routledge, 2008.
ISBN: 0203090101
DDC: 175
LCC: GV706.3
Edition: (electronic file)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-231) and index.
Ancient rituals and modern morality plays -- What is this thing
called sport? -- Sports, persons and sportspersonship -- Sports as
practices -- Sport and ethical development -- Codes of conduct and
trustworthy coaches -- Racism, racist acts and courageous role models
-- Hubris, humility and humiliation -- Schadenfreude: envy, justice
and self-esteem -- Suffering in and for sport -- Doping: slippery
slopes, pleonexia and shame -- Whose Prometheus?: transhumanism,
biotechnology and the moral topography of sports medicine.
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