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Doping under medical control – conceptually possible but impossible in the world of professional sports?
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In this paper, the authors considered the argument that if the ban on doping in sports was abolished it would be possible to have doping under medical control, i.e., open doping, prescribed by doctors with collection of reliable information about effects and side effects.Abstract:
This paper considers the argument that if the ban on doping in sports was abolished it would be possible to have doping under medical control, i.e. open doping, prescribed by doctors with collection of reliable information about effects and side-effects. A game-theoretic argument is developed showing that this positive scenario is very unlikely to be instantiated given reasonable assumptions about the motivation of sportspersons and sports doctors. It is furthermore shown that the standard arguments against the current ban on doping also entail that if doping was made legal any requirements that it should be open doping could not be justified.read more
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Health and doping in elite‐level cycling
TL;DR: There is a need to implement more effective preventive programs to change athletes' attitudes toward doping and its health risks, and there was a systematization of exogenous substance use in the cycling environment and a trivialization of the side effects of the banned substances.
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The development of doping use in high‐level cycling: From team‐organized doping to advances in the fight against doping
TL;DR: The results show that although the fight against doping in the last decade has reduced doping use in high‐level cycling, anti‐doping measures have also had unexpected effects.
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From Bench to Bedside, To Track & Field: The Context of Enhancement and its Ethical Relevance
TL;DR: Unless another licence is stated on the immediately following page this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence.
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An (un)desirable trade of harms? How elite athletes might react to medically supervised ‘doping’ and their considerations of side-effects in this situation
TL;DR: Interpreting results with the understanding of sport as an exceptional and risky working environment suggests that legalising certain 'doping' substances under medical supervision would create other/new types of harms, and this 'trade-off of harms and benefits' would be undesirable considering the occupational health, working conditions and well-being of most athletes.
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Ethics of a relaxed antidoping rule accompanied by harm-reduction measures
Bengt Kayser,Jan Tolleneer +1 more
TL;DR: It is found that a harm-reduction approach is morally defensible and potentially provides a viable escape out of the impasse resulting from the impossibility of attaining the eradication of doping.
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Sport in Society: Issues and Controversies
TL;DR: The socology of sport has been studied extensively in the past and the present, see as discussed by the authors for a survey of some of the main areas of interest in sport in the social sciences.
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Are Doping Sanctions Justified? A Moral Relativistic View
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that doping is not only compatible with, but also incarnates, the true spirit of modern competitive elite sports and that, if the doping ban is kept, fairness (understood as equality of the relevant competitive conditions in a sport) will be achieved.
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Viewpoint: Legalisation of performance-enhancing drugs
TL;DR: The rules of sport define a level playing field on which athletes compete, but the anchoring of today's antidoping regulations in the notion of fair play is misguided, since other factors that affect performance are unchecked.