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Edited by Caplan Arthur L.; Edited by Parent, Brendan

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Sports are more than just “games”. They can unite countries, start wars, and revolutionize views on race, class, and gender. Through works from philosophy, sociology, medicine, and law, this collection explores intersections of sports and ethics, and identifies the immense role of sports in shaping and reflecting social values.

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Sport is often thought of as simply “games,” but it can in fact be much more. Sport can be responsible for guiding social justice movements, igniting city-wide riots, uniting countries, permanently injuring youth, revolutionizing views about race, gender and class, and producing several of the most successful global industries. Reports of ethical crises in athletics are constant fodder for popular attention, whether performance enhancing drugs in baseball, corruption in college athletics, the epidemic of brain damage among NFL players, and others too numerous to mention. As a proxy for social concerns, we naturally think of sport in inherently moral terms. Yet we can hardly define the term “sport,” or agree on acceptable levels of sporting risk, or determine clear roles and responsibilities for fans, players, coaches, owners, media and health care personnel. Bringing together 27 of the most essential recent articles from philosophy, history, sociology, medicine, and law, this collection explores intersections of sports and ethics and brings attention to the immense role of sports in shaping and reflecting social values.

Table of contents:
Part I. What is Sport?1. What is sport?Barthes, Roland, First Chapter of What is Sport?, 20072. Normative Theories of Sport: A Critical ReviewSigmund Loland, Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 2004Part II. Categories and DiscriminationA.Professional vs. Amateur3. Uneven bars: Age rules, antitrust, and amateurism in women”s gymnasticsRyan M. Rodenberg and Andrea N. Eagleman,University of Baltimore Law Review, 20114. Going pro in sports: Providing guidance to student-athletes in a complicated legal and regulatory environmentGlenn M. Wong, Warren Zola, and Chris Deubert, Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal, 2011B.Gender5. Women in Sport – Gender Relations and Future PerspectivesGerturd Pfister, Sport in Society, 20106. Out of bounds? A critique of the new policies on hyperandrogenism in elite female athletes. Karkazis, Katrina, et al. The American Journal of Bioethics, 2012C. Race7. Race relations theories: Implications for sport managementSmith, E., Hattery, A., Journal of Sport Management, 20118. Black Athletes in White Men”s Games”: Race, Sport and American National PastimesDavid K. Wiggins, The International Journal of the History of Sport, 2014D. Disability9. The “Second Place” Problem: Assistive Technology in Sports and (Re) Constructing NormalD.A. Baker, Science and engineering ethics, 201510. More Similar Than Different: The Psychological Environment of Paralympic SportKristin D. Dieffenbach,and Traci A. Statler, Journal of Sport Psychology in Action, 2012Part III. Athletes as Role Models11. Professional Athletes and their Duty to be Role ModelsSandra Lynch, Daryl Adair, and Paul Jonson. Achieving Ethical Excellence (Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations, Volume 12) Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 201412. An Exploratory Study of Professional Black Male Athletes” Individual Social Responsibility (ISR).Kwame Agyemang and John N. Singer. Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men 2013Part IV. Power and Corruption13. Universities Gone Wild: Big Money, Big Sports, and Scandalous Abuse at Penn StateGiroux HA, Giroux SS, Critical Methodologies, 201214. Investigating corruption in corporate sport: The IOC and FIFAA. Jennings, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 201115. Plata o plomo? Why do Footballers Fix Matches?D. Hill, Original Publication, 2015