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Author: Ejgil Jespersen (Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Norway) ,
Mike J. McNamee (University of Swansea, UK) ,
Mike J. McNamee
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.530kg
ISBN: 9780415487979
ISBN 10: 0415487978
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 19 June 2009
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""Comprising essays by a group of international scholars on a variety of critical issues in the world of ability, disability, sport, and adapted physical activity, this book provides comprehensive, historically based coverage...A thematic or conceptual approach to designing and presenting tasks allows for an array of 'correct' responses and the opportunity to refine movement patterns and broaden the movement repertoire."" This speaks to the beauty of this timely book, which not only provides definitions and applications but also looks at the challenges of determining how best to serve the individual and at what still needs to be done--i.e., at how far one can go in terms of ethics. Summing Up: Recommended."" – Choice, July 2010 ""They take a closer look at how today's technology can make certain disabilities an advantage to the athlete due to more refined prostheses, lighter wheelchairs, etc. This blurs the picture of who is dis-abled or too-abled, and using terms that could come straight out of a general doping discussion it is argued that it challenges part of the internal logic of sport: equality."" – Kenneth Aggerholm Department of Sport Science, University of Aarhus ""Ethics, Disability and Sports academic heterogeneity entails that the papers included will be differently relevant to diverse types of readers. Nevertheless, there is undoubtedly in this volume relevant information for philosophical debate critically important for the ethical development of APA and disability sport, especially in what concerns the protection of the central values of self-determination and personal agency. I recommend this book to all researchers, practitioners, and students who wish to contribute to this development."" – Carla Filomena Silva, Loughborough University, Published in Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly"
Comprising essays by a group of international scholars on a variety of critical issues in the world of ability, disability, sport, and adapted physical activity, this book provides comprehensive, historically based coverage...A thematic or conceptual approach to designing and presenting tasks allows for an array of 'correct' responses and the opportunity to refine movement patterns and broaden the movement repertoire. This speaks to the beauty of this timely book, which not only provides definitions and applications but also looks at the challenges of determining how best to serve the individual and at what still needs to be done--i.e., at how far one can go in terms of ethics. Summing Up: Recommended. - Choice, July 2010 They take a closer look at how today's technology can make certain disabilities an advantage to the athlete due to more refined prostheses, lighter wheelchairs, etc. This blurs the picture of who is dis-abled or too-abled, and using terms that could come straight out of a general doping discussion it is argued that it challenges part of the internal logic of sport: equality. - Kenneth Aggerholm Department of Sport Science, University of Aarhus Ethics, Disability and Sports academic heterogeneity entails that the papers included will be differently relevant to diverse types of readers. Nevertheless, there is undoubtedly in this volume relevant information for philosophical debate critically important for the ethical development of APA and disability sport, especially in what concerns the protection of the central values of self-determination and personal agency. I recommend this book to all researchers, practitioners, and students who wish to contribute to this development. - Carla Filomena Silva, Loughborough University, Published in Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly
Author Information
Ejgil Jespersen is former Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Education at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, having served as Head of Department there from 2004 - 2008. Mike McNamee is a Professor of Applied Ethics at the Department of Philosophy, History and Law, School of Health Science at Swansea University. In the field of publishing, with Routledge, he is the series editor of Ethics and Sport and the journal editor of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy. He is a former President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport and the Founding Chair of the British Philosophy of Sport Association. He is a member of the Clinical Ethics Committee at Cardiff and Vale National Health Service Trust, UK.
