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New paper with Ludovica Lorusso “Uses and abuses of the concept of race in the genomics of sport performance and sport-related traumatic brain injury”

New paper out with Ludovica Lorusso in Sports Ethics and Philosophy “Uses and abuses of the concept of race in genomics of sport performance and sport-related traumatic brain injury”:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17511321.2024.2361916

Ludovica Lorusso is a philosopher of science who has written extensively about race in the past. Ludovica and I decided to work together to and combine Ludovica’s philosophy of science expertise and my ethics of sport expertise to tackle the issue of the race in sport genomics and concussion research.

There’s not much written about race in the philosophy and ethics of sport literature, and that’s a problem for a variety of reasons.
We encourage you to read our paper and welcome your comments and criticisms to take our research forward!

We would also like to express our gratitude to the participants of the joint conference European Association for Philosophy of Sport and British Philosophy of Sport Association which took place at KU Leuven in April 2023, and to the participants of the 2023/24 seminar series of the Research Center for Knowledge in Cognition of the University of Bologna for their invaluable feedback.

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Genetic testing in sports: What, if any, role?

The last fifteen years have witnessed a boom of genetic tests for sport performance. They relate both the ability to predict athletes at higher risks

A 'genetic medal'?

A ‘genetic medal’?

for specific injuries, and to the ability to predict athletic talent. They raise scientific and ethical issues related to confidentiality, conflict of interest of the sports physician, informed consent in children, and possibly infringement on the athlete’s autonomy. In this paper we distinguish here genetic tests for injury prevention in four cases: (i) concussion-related trauma brain injuries; (ii)  sudden-cardiac arrest related conditions; (iii) over-exertion complications related to the sickle-cell anemia trait; (iv) Achilles tendinopathies and anterior crucial ligament ruptures, and for athletic performance prediction in children. We argue that while the former kind of genetic tests have utility, with the bounds of specified limitations, the latter is both ethically and scientifically problematic.

Camporesi S, McNamee MJ (2013) ‘Is there a role for genetic testing in sports?‘ Encyclopedia of Life Sciences DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0024203 The article can be accessed here.