Original Articles
Vol. 67 No. 1 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2018.527
Doping tradizionale e doping genetico: questioni etiche / Traditional doping and genetic doping: ethical issues
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Received: 23 March 2018
Accepted: 23 March 2018
Published: 23 March 2018
Accepted: 23 March 2018
Published: 23 March 2018
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Interpreting doping is fraught with difficulties at the very level of a comprehensive and consistent definition of the phenomenon. Such difficulties have influenced the evolution of anti-doping policies, that are further hindered by the lack of a clearly articulated ethical framework. Moreover, in the last few decades, a host of moral dilemmas has been arising in connection with gene doping. This article analyses different kinds of genetic technology that could enhance athletic performances in the light of their moral implications. In addition to the medical, legal, and ethical problems inherent in traditional doping, gene doping raises a whole range of new ethical issues that might render the current formulations of sport ethics and anti-doping policies, if not ineffectual, at least inadequate and anachronistic. Notwithstanding the difficulties in foreseeing how developments in genetic technology might impact the world of sport in the future, the perspective of gene doping radicalises two kinds of issues, that are not stranger to other forms of doping. Firstly, it leads to reconsider the nature and goals of sport as an expression of human excellency, and secondly, it raises fundamental questions about the definition of human identity and dignity in a technological civilization.
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Doping tradizionale e doping genetico: questioni etiche / Traditional doping and genetic doping: ethical issues. (2018). Medicina E Morale, 67(1), 41-54. https://doi.org/10.4081/mem.2018.527
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