Fair Play: Drugs and Doping; also equipment issues (started Murray's book)
Fair Play: Competitive Categories; including paralympics, gender categories, rules about trans and intersex participation
Enhanced Athletes
Presentation Topics: MMA, Cheerleading, Violence in Hockey, Sports During Pandemic, Equestrian, Nascar
no questions on final, but hopefully these presentations helped you see how you can use the tools we've developed in this course to address a wide variety of questions about sport
Monday--you will be able to ask clarificatory questions
Also, we will do some reviewing--e.g. we will review Murray's book
May need to discuss the last presentation (depending on what happens today)
Will look at the poll results on trans and intersex athletes
Will poll you on some further issues about online classes
Ch. 8: Privacy Issues
Murray's View: Prohibitionism--doping is bad for sport
Counterargument: even if doping is bad for sport, the invasion of privacy is problematic, and possibly even worse than doping
How does testing work? (Murray)
during competition
in some sports, year-around
whereabouts rules--have to say where you'll be one hour per day
testing is also outside that time frame
"observed voiding"
Murray's view: most athletes don't mind
How does testing work at SMU?
several students explained in their RRs
NCAA testing vs. SMU testing; different penalties involved
each of those students did mind to some degree
Ch. 9: Transhumanism
Prohibitionism (Murray)--performance enhancing drugs and technologies should be banned when they subvert or undermine the meanings and values that are important in sport: talent, dedication, and courage
Physiological View (Foddy & Savulescu)--drugs and technologies should be allowed but only when they enable a person to move within the healthy, human range
EPO OK if it let's people move within the normal range, but shouldn't increase hematocrit beyond 50%
Beta-blockers not allowed (because a fearless competitor isn't human!)
Transhumanism/Posthumanism (Andy Miah, discussed by Murray; see video below)--the more spectacular the performance, the better; no problem with achieving better than human performance
Watch up to 38:38 or to the end--if you're listening, not watching, the sound in the background is the Sochi Olympics (2014)
Notes based on the lecture:
Performance Enhancing Drugs that could have a "transhuman" effect
The usual PEDS, such as EPO, when they create a super-high hematocrit, outside the human range
Marijuana
Placebo pill, so athlete believes they have extra ability
Other performance enhancing technologies that could have a "transhuman" effect
Genetic screening--who should be a sprinter and who should be an endurance athlete?
