Thinking "Bioethically": Moving Beyond Critique at the Intersection of Biomedicine and the Sociology of Sport.
In the sociology of sport, there is a consensus that it is not just our job to analyze our sporting worlds but that we must also intervene in them. In this article, we make a case for how bioethics can serve as a tool in the toolkit that can strengthen one's analysis and commentary at the intersecti...
| Published in: | Sociology of Sport Journal Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 1 - 14 |
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Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc.
Jun2026
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