Health Sciences 2610F/G Lecture Notes - Strychnine, Sports Drink, Digitalis
12 Apr 2014
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Therapy vs. enhancement: a brief history of enhancement of human capacities, typical moral objections to enhancement. Zero-sum/non-zero sum: the future directions: affective enhancement. Sandel: therapy has an ethical basis in the relationship between health and. Species typical functioning = normality: the purpose of therapy is to restore you to normality (or as close as possible) Enhancement historically : has always been there, performance-enhancing drug use, predates history, was universal, seems to serve the same purpose. If you were a loser in your hometown back then, you should be ashamed and be disgraced its not that they try to enhance themselves, it was because there was something at stake. Most popular drugs in cycling (1860-1930: caffeine, cocaine, heroin, ether, digitalis endurance for the heart, alcohol, strychnine - trying to lower the heart rate, opium, oxygen, fungi. Typical moral objections to enhancement: cheating/unfairness, harm to self, others, the institution. Harm to self, others, the institution: self sliding scale (doping abuse)
