Ethics of a relaxed antidoping rule accompanied by harm-reduction measures

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_57CE178139B9
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Ethics of a relaxed antidoping rule accompanied by harm-reduction measures
Périodique
Journal of medical ethics
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Kayser B., Tolleneer J.
ISSN
1473-4257 (Online)
0306-6800 (Print)
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
05/2017
Volume
43
Numéro
5
Pages
282-286
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Harm-reduction approaches are used to reduce the burden of risky human behaviour without necessarily aiming to stop the behaviour. We discuss what an introduction of harm reduction for doping in sports would mean in parallel with a relaxation of the antidoping rule. We analyse what is ethically at stake in the following five levels: (1) What would it mean for the athlete (the self)? (2) How would it impact other athletes (the other)? (3) How would it affect the phenomenon of sport as a game and its fair play basis (the play)? (4) What would be the consequences for the spectator and the role of sports in society (the display)? and (5) What would it mean for what some consider as essential to being human (humanity)? For each level, we present arguments for and against doping and then discuss what a harm-reduction approach, within a dynamic regime of a partially relaxed antidoping rule, could imply. We find that a harm-reduction approach is morally defensible and potentially provides a viable escape out of the impasse resulting from the impossibility of attaining the eradication of doping. The following question remains to be answered: Would a more relaxed position, when combined with harm-reduction measures, indeed have less negative consequences for society than today's all-out antidoping efforts that aim for abstinence? We provide an outline of an alternative policy, allowing a cautious step-wise change to answer this question and then discuss the ethical aspects of such a policy change.

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