Performance-Enhancing Drugs, Sport, and the Ideal of Natural Athletic Performance.
Am J Bioeth
; 18(6): 8-15, 2018 06.
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em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-29852101
ABSTRACT
The use of certain performance-enhancing drugs (PED) is banned in sport. I discuss critically standard justifications of the ban based on arguments from two widely used criteria fairness and harms to health. I argue that these arguments on their own are inadequate, and only make sense within a normative understanding of athletic performance and the value of sport. In the discourse over PED, the distinction between "natural" and "artificial" performance has exerted significant impact. I examine whether the distinction makes sense from a moral point of view. I propose an understanding of "natural" athletic performance by combining biological knowledge of training with an interpretation of the normative structure of sport. I conclude that this understanding can serve as moral justification of the PED ban and enable critical and analytically based line drawing between acceptable and nonacceptable performance-enhancing means in sport.
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Aptidão
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Esportes
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Desempenho Atlético
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Substâncias para Melhoria do Desempenho
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Humans
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En
Ano de publicação:
2018
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Article