Ethics Disability and Sports

<p>This volume addresses a range of philosophical and ethical issues in adapted physical activity and disability sports participation more broadly. It is comprised of a range of essays by international scholars whose backgrounds embrace different traditions of philosophy, pedagogy and adapted physical activity.</p><p>The principal aim of the symposium was to open up and critically explore a range of conceptual and ethical issues and perspectives that have arisen with respect to the engagement of persons with dis/abilities in a range of physical activity contexts including, but not exclusively located in, mainstream sporting activities.</p><p>This book was published as a special issue in <em>Sport, Ethics and Philosophy</em>.</p> <p>1. Introduction: Philosophy, Adapted Physical Activity and Dis/ability <em>Ejgil Jespersen</em> and <em>Mike McNamee </em>2. Disability or Extraordinary Talent—Francesco Lentini (Three Legs) Versus Oscar Pistorius (No Legs) <em>Ivo van Hilvoorde</em> and <em>Laurens Landeweerd </em>3. Should Oscar Pistorius Be Excluded from the 2008 Olympic Games? <em>S.D. Edwards </em>4. Tackling Murderball: Masculinity, Disability and the Big Screen <em>Michael Gard</em> and <em>Hayley Fitzgerald </em>5. Imagining Being Disabled Through Playing Sport: The Body and Alterity as Limits to Imagining Others’ Lives <em>Brett Smith </em>6. Ethical Considerations in Adapted Physical Activity Practices <em>Yeshayahu Hutzler </em>7. Self-regulated Dependency: Ethical Reflections on Interdependence and Help in Adapted Physical Activity <em>Donna L. Goodwin </em>8. Conversion Gait Disorder—Meeting Patients in Behaviour, Reuniting Body and Mind <em>Anika A. Jordbru</em>, <em>Ejgil Jespersen</em> and <em>Egil Martinsen </em>9. Celebrating the Insecure Practitioner. A Critique of Evidence-based Practice in Adapted Physical Activity <em>Øyvind F. Standal </em>10. The ‘I’ of the Beholder: Phenomenological Seeing in Disability Research <em>Christina Papadimitriou </em>11. The Remarkable Logic of Autism: Developing and Describing an Embedded Curriculum Based in Semiotic Phenomenology <em>Maureen Connolly </em>12. Ethical Aspects in Research in Adapted Physical Activity <em>Anne-Mette Bredahl</em></p>