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This handbook comprises scientific, juridical, ethical and social perspectives on gene doping for educational purposes. The lessons presented here contain extensive methodical and didactical remarks. They aim to raise the awareness of students and adolescent athletes as well as to offer specific knowledge.

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Gene doping is regarded as the form of performance enhancement in elite sports with the greatest potential which also raises issues for all of society that transcend competitive sport. This book brings together detailed concepts for lessons dealing with the scientific, legal, ethical, and social aspects of gene doping. The lessons have been applied in class and extensively annotated for classroom use. Upper secondary level students may choose out of various options which will refine and expand their subject expertise as well as their methodology, decision-making and responsibility in accordance with their subject focus, interdisciplinary approach, and curricular objectives.

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Contents: Performance enhancement - Ethics of sports - Handbook for classroom use - Politics and law - Physical education - Biology and bioethics - Sociology.

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Swen Körner is professor at the German Sport University Cologne. His research focuses on physical education and social sciences in sports as well as systems theory.
Stefanie Schardien works for the Evangelical Reformed Church of Bavaria. She researches theological bioethics, fundamental theological problems and ecumenical theology.
Birte Steven-Vitense, Tobias Arenz, and Marcel Scharf are researchers at the German Sport University Cologne.
Edgar Dorn is a researcher at Hildesheim University Foundation and Steffen Albach is a teacher of political education and economics.

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