- Final questions are at Canvas
- 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
- 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:
- 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
- Genetic screening--who should be a sprinter and who should be an endurance athlete?
- Gene doping
- Prosthetic devices
- Oscar Pistorius's blades -- might make him better-than-human
- Your mobile phone
- Google Glass
- Phone tooth implant
- "nano sized" devices that help us optimize health
- Surgery
- Laser eye surgery--when it creates better than perfect vision (Tiger Woods)
- Surgically enhanced hand and foot webbing for swimmers
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Discussion (probably Monday)--what should we think of the transhuman swimmer?
- Transhumanists (e.g. Andy Miah): hurray
- sports have always pushed in a transhuman direction through new technologies
- sport-specific shoes, gloves and padding in football, swimsuits, fiberglass poles
- why shouldn't athletes enhance performance with technology used internally?
- Physiological View (e.g. Bernard Foddy & Julian Savulescu): not good, because he's moving outside the normal human range; not human, not healthy
- Prohibitionists (e.g. Murray): two objections
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| Murray p. 164 |
- Who is right?
