Includes bibliographical references (pages 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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The primary aim of this book is to situate ethics at the heart of sports via 'virtue ethical' considerations that can be traced back to the gymnasia of ancient Greece.