The Ethics of Sport: Essential Readings

Sport is often thought of as simply "games," but it can in fact be much more. Sport can be responsible for guiding social justice movements, igniting city-wide riots, uniting countries, permanently injuring youth, revolutionizing views about race, gender and class, and producing several of the most successful global industries. Reports of ethical crises in athletics are constant fodder for popular attention, whether performance enhancing drugs in baseball, corruption in college athletics, the epidemic of brain damage among NFL players, and others too numerous to mention. As a proxy for social concerns, we naturally think of sport in inherently moral terms. Yet we can hardly define the term "sport" or agree on acceptable levels of sporting risk, or determine clear roles and responsibilities for fans, players, coaches, owners, media and health care personnel. Bringing together 27 of the most essential recent articles from philosophy, history, sociology, medicine, and law, this collection explores intersections of sports and ethics and brings attention to the immense role of sports in shaping and reflecting social values.

• MLA Handbook
• The Ethics of Sport: What Everyone Needs to Know®
• Cheated: The UNC Scandal, the Education of Athletes, and the Future of Big-Time College Sports
• Knowing the Score: What Sports Can Teach Us About Philosophy (And What Philosophy Can Teach Us About Sports)
• The Ball: Discovering the Object of the Game
• Modern Sport Ethics: A Reference Handbook, 2nd Edition (Contemporary World Issues)
• Fair Play: The Ethics of Sport
• The Ethics of Ambiguity
• Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Arts (Second edition)
• Elementary & Intermediate Algebra with Access Code