Doping

Matthew Wood Rough Draft Gene doping is defined as “The transfer of polymers of nucleic acids or nucleic acid analogues” by the WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency). Essentially gene doping is modification of a person’s genes in order to improve how they perform. This can be done several ways, however the most common method is the use of a vector. The gene that is to be inserted into the host is placed inside the capsule of a virus. The virus is able to spread throughout the tissue to be…

It’s always a crushing blow to athletics when one of the greats is exposed for doping. Coaches and athletes alike have been finding ways to twist the latest scientific developments for their benefit.While some argue that sports cannot move forward without performance-enhancing drugs, the majority views doping as unethical. As with any debated issue, there are some who support doping. Authors such as Ian Steadman defend the use of performance-enhancing drugs on the grounds that they are the…

adopt unethical ways to cheat such as doping. Doping by definition is “the use of a substance (such as an anabolic steroid or erythropoietin) or technique (such as blood doping) to illegally improve athletic performance” (Merriam-Webster, 2018). Doping has become a controversial topic throughout sports because it can cause damage to athletes health, give them an unfair advantage, and has already shown how it has negatively affected famous athletes. Doping has the ability or potential to…

The controversial topic of performance enhancing drugs are still in discussion today. Some believe that they’re good to use, while others believe they give an unfair advantage to the sport being played. A performance enhancing drug is any substance taken by athletes to improve performance. Typically, well-known athletes are the ones to use performance enhancing drugs. Performance enhancing drugs are used by multiple athletes of every sports across the world. Therefore, the athletes who use PEDs…

try to get an advantage in the competition they are doing. They try to get away with doping in sports, from performance enhancers to over the counter pills to calm them down or to ease the pain if they are in any. They know that it is cheating to take drugs. If they get caught doing drugs while they are in sports, it can have a negative effect on the person doing it and the team if they are in a team sport. Doping happens in professional and amateur sports, it can be dangerous to the person who…

like performance-enhancing drugs, they are only ban during in season or in-competition(Smith, et al 3). This list was one of many restrictions created by the World Anti-Doping agency. WADA’s global anti-doping code was introduced in 2004 (Smith,et al 3). The anti-coding contain restrictions on the use of PEDs in sports. The anti-doping code that was introduced by the WADA banned drugs containing PEDs such as EPO, human growth hormone, anabolic androgenic steroids, the more powerful…

The six scholarly sources examined for this paper mainly discuss and argue reasons for policy, how the anti-doping movement and sentiments evolved over the twentieth and early twenty-first century, as well as major events that changed the rules. In addition, most sources look at the time frame of anti-doping policy as a key issue that focuses the given research. While all the topics of the sources are similar, the scholars disagree about why policy was enacted, and also about how it evolved. In…

A. M. (n.d.). Genetically Modified Athletes; Biomedical ethics, gene doping and sport. Retrieved from http://samples.sainsburysebooks.co.uk/9781134425990_sample_535540.pdf This source is a primary source (book) written by a scientist named Andy Miah. This book focused on the bioethics of this current issue and went into details about the applications for the genetically modified athlete. This source is important because it gives the bioethics stance on this issue. it also goes into details…

as blood doping. Jeanna Bryner, Managing Editor of Live Science, states it is “an illicit method of improving athletic performance by artificially boosting the blood 's ability to bring more oxygen to muscles.” Marathonist and cyclists use this method over steroids because if there is more oxygen going into their muscles, then they are able to increase their stamina and performance. This increase allows athletes to travel long distances without becoming fatigued. Though blood doping is an…

Gene doping is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as “the transfer of genes or genetically modified cells into an individual as a potential method for illicitly enhancing athletic performance.” It is is a relatively new method of modifying the human genome for the purpose of increasing athletic performance. Gene doping can be traced back to research presented in the late 1990’s concerning genetic modification of skeletal muscles (Barton-Davis et al., 1998; McPherron et al., 1997). The research…