Sport and Enhancement in the Age of Human Rights: Genetic Testing as a Case Study

Abstract

The paper focuses on the ethical–legal implications of a specific area of scientific and technological progress for the recognition of sport as a human right, which is the field of genetic advances with regard to application of genetic testing for non-medical purposes, and in particular for talent identification (genetic talent identification). As with most biomedical innovations, this use of genetic tests has both constructive and more ethical–legal problematic implications. The attempt made by this paper is to highlight controversial implications of genetic talent identification tests for the recognition of sport as human right.

Keywords

• bioethics
• biolaw
• genetic talent identification
• fundamental rights
• equality
• right to freely construct one’s personality