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ETHICS IN SPORT. Week 12. What you need to know…. Be able to analyse and evaluate ethical dilemmas in sport Performance enhancing drugs Gene therapy Painkillers IV fluids. Ethics. Ethics: the practice of making principled choices between right and wrong Ethics in sport. Ethical Issues.
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ETHICS IN SPORT Week 12
What you need to know… • Be able to analyse and evaluate ethical dilemmas in sport • Performance enhancing drugs • Gene therapy • Painkillers • IV fluids
Ethics • Ethics: the practice of making principled choices between right and wrong • Ethics in sport
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
Ergogenic Aids • Ergogenic: performance enhancing • Legal practices • Intravenous drips • Local anaesthetic injections • Illegal practices • Performance enhancing drugs • Genetic therapy and manipulation
Intravenous Drips • Directly inserting fluids into a vein to speed up rehydration and recovery • Case study
Local Anaesthetic Injections • Otherwise known as painkillers • Masks the effects of pain • Case study
Performance Enhancing Drugs • Why may an athlete decide to take performance enhancing drugs?
Performance Enhancing Drugs • Common drugs in sport • See attached table
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 athlete’s suitability to a sport as well as their training, recovery and performance
Activities • IV case study • Painkillers case study • Activity 7, p.383 • Read ‘team dream genes’, p.386-387
CONGRATULATIONS! • You have just finished the 2008 Year 12 PE Course •