HUMANITY 2.0A CURRENT ETHICAL CHALLENGE FOR ANTI-DOPINGProfessor @andymiah

ACT ITHE CONTEXT

1999THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE GENETICALLY ENGINEERED ATHLETE

2000THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT

2001GENE DOPING IS A REALITY

2007PROOF OF PRINCIPLE

2016HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF

“We don’t know yet whether this has been done anywhere, but…it will be used sometime”

Carl Johan Sundberg, Karolinska, WADA gene doping panel

2005THE STOCKHOLM DECLARATION

2014GENE THERAPY AS A HUMAN RIGHT

“From my own work with the mice, I also know that earlier you intervene, the better off you're going to be when you get old. So once you go down that path, I think it's unethical to withhold from someone something that would actually allow their muscles to be much healthier now and to the future. As long as there's no safety risk, I don't see why athletes should be punished because they're athletes. So I'm on the other side of the fence from Wada on this one, even though we're on the same team right now”

Lee Sweeney, Jan 2014

2004WADA CODE INCLUDES ‘GENE DOPING’

2017THE FUTURE HAPPENED

ACT IITHE IMPENDING COMPLICATIONS

2015GENE EDITING IS A REALITY

2016NORTH SENSE GOES BEYOND THE SPECIES

2016INGESTIBLE TECHNOLOGIES BECOKE A REALITY

2016PROSTHETIC DEVICES BETTER THAN BIOLOGY

2017CONCLUSION: THE DILEMMA

How can anti-doping protect its social mandate, when human enhancement is allowing the general public to become more capable of performing acts of physical

endeavour than the anti-doping compliant athlete?

Thank you @ANDYMIAH

Out now with MIT Press (2017)