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Sports, virtues and vices : morality plays / Mike McNamee.
Van Pelt Library GV706.3 .M386 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McNamee, M. J. (Mike J.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Sports.
- Sports--Philosophy.
- Sportsmanship.
- Physical Description:
- x, 236 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-231) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415194082
- 0415194083
- 9780415194099
- 0415194091
- 9780203090107
- 0203090101
- OCLC:
- 183392036
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