Sport and Alcohol - An Ethical Perspective

Informationen zum Autor Carwyn Rh. Jones is Professor in Sports Ethics at the Cardiff School of Sport at Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK. He was formerly president of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport and a founding member of the British Philosophy of Sport Association. He is co-editor of Routledge’s The Ethics of Sport Coaching and Cambridge Scholar’s Philosophy of Sport . He has published widely on a broad range of ethical and sociological issues in sport Klappentext Using philosophical arguments rooted in ethics and virtue theory, this book examines the alcohol-tolerant ethos that pervades contemporary sport, and the initiation of members of the sporting practice community into problematic drinking. Zusammenfassung Using philosophical arguments rooted in ethics and virtue theory, this book examines the alcohol-tolerant ethos that pervades contemporary sport, and the initiation of members of the sporting practice community into problematic drinking. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Alcohol and its harms 2. Alcohol and sport 3. Sport and its alcohol ethos 4:. ‘Role models’ and setting a good example 5. Drinking too much and punishment 6. Alcohol abuse, misuse and disorder 7. Footballer and alcoholic: a life story 8. Conclusion

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• Authors: Carwyn Jones, Carwyn (Cardiff Metropolitan University Jones, Carwyn Rh. Jones, Carwyn Rh. (Cardiff Metropolitan University Jones, Jones Carwyn, Jones Carwyn Rh.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.03.2016
• EAN: 9781138807976
• ISBN: 978-1-138-80797-6
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; SPORTS & RECREATION / General, MEDICAL / Sports Medicine, Drug & substance abuse: social aspects, Sociology: sport & leisure, Sport: general, Sociology: sport and leisure, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Sports injuries and medicine, Drug Abuse In Sport, SPORTS & RECREATION / Cultural & Social Aspects