Sport and Alcohol: An ethical perspective
About this ebook
In doing so, the book casts an ethical eye over the following topics:
- Society’s relationship with alcohol
- Sponsorship and marketing of alcohol through sport and its effect on children
- Sport’s alcohol-tolerant ethos, problematic drinking practices and rituals
- Punishment and discipline in relation to athletes’ drink-related bad behavior
- Alcoholism in the context of sport and the need for a greater understanding of the condition, how it develops and what can be done
- The status of athletes as role models
Offering a much-needed critical assessment of an important issue in contemporary sport and society, Sport and Alcohol is essential reading for those interested in the social, cultural or philosophical study of sport in general and sport and alcohol in particular.
About the author
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
