ETHICS IN SPORT

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ETHICS IN SPORT

• Week 12

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What you need to know

• Be able to analyse and evaluate ethical dilemmas
  in sport
• Performance enhancing drugs
• Gene therapy
• Painkillers
• IV fluids

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Ethics

• Ethics the practice of making principled choices
  between right and wrong
• Ethics in sport

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Ethical Issues

• Performance enhancing drugs and methods
• Genetic doping, therapy and manipulation
• Use of pain killing injections to enable athlete
  to continue performing
• Use of science and technology

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Ergogenic Aids

• Ergogenic performance enhancing
• Legal practices
• Intravenous drips
• Local anaesthetic injections
• Illegal practices
• Performance enhancing drugs
• Genetic therapy and manipulation

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Intravenous Drips

• Directly inserting fluids into a vein to speed up
  rehydration and recovery
• Case study

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Local Anaesthetic Injections

• Otherwise known as painkillers
• Masks the effects of pain
• Case study

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Performance Enhancing Drugs

• Why may an athlete decide to take performance
  enhancing drugs?

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Performance Enhancing Drugs

• Common drugs in sport
• See attached table

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Genetic Therapy Manipulation

• Non-therapeutic use of cells, genes, genetic
  elements or the modification of gene expression,
  having the capacity to enhance athletic
  performance is prohibited (WADA, 2005)
• Ability to improve an athletes suitability to a
  sport as well as their training, recovery and
  performance

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Activities

• IV case study
• Painkillers case study
• Activity 7, p.383
• Read team dream genes, p.386-387

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CONGRATULATIONS!

• You have just finished the 2008 Year 12 PE Course
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