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Does anti-doping violate medical privacy?

Kayser B, Mauron A, Miah A · BMC medical ethics · 2007

Open access · cc by · source: Europe PMC

Since WADA (1999), athletes must report whereabouts and urinate in view for samples — a surveillance and testing regime the authors say clashes with medical-ethics norms and received privacy.

Key findings

Such observed collection would be unacceptable in any other setting except perhaps imprisonment, yet is treated as ethical in elite sport. Privacy is the casualty of the testing regime.

Methodology

They reconstruct the WADA-AMA framework, the whereabouts rule and observed urination, and argue the normative framework plays out as costly surveillance increasingly at odds with medical ethics.

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This is a 2007 critical appraisal, not a new prevalence study of doping. It does not design an alternative code in detail.

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