Human enhancement in sports

Miah, A

Abstract

This chapter examines the range of sciences and technologies that converge around sports and the implications of this for issues of fairness and ethics. First, it outlines some of the recent scientific developments that speak to the convergence of disciplines pertinent to sports enhancements. Second, it considers the consequences of convergence within sport, inquiring into the practical ethical issues it provokes. Finally, it explores examples of technological effect in sport, which, collectively, articulate how far ranging are the many ways in which innovation converges on sports. In so doing, it provides a taxonomy of innovations which reveal the complexity of technological change in sports and the challenge of isolating artifice from nature.

Citation

Miah, A. (2015). Human enhancement in sports. In W. Bainbridge, & M. Roco (Eds.), Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence (1-13). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04033-2_85-1

• Publication Date: Jun 23, 2015
• Deposit Date: Mar 22, 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 1-13
• Book Title: Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence
• ISBN: 9783319040332
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04033-2_85-1
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04033-2_85-1
• Related Public URLs: http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-04033-2