Is Blood Testing the Next Step in Doping Control?
The ethics of blood testing as an element of doping control in sport. Researchers/Authors: Alister Browne, Victor Lachance, and Andrew Pipe Division of Health Care Ethics, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia; and the Canadian Center for Ethics in Sport, Ottawa, Ontario; Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Ottawa Heart Institute & Department of Family Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital, Ontario, CANADA Source: Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise (1999) Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 497-501 Summary/Discussion: This isn’t exactly a “study” per se. It is a commentary that appeared in the April 99 issue of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. I felt it was relevant to this column because it represents the current state of affairs with respect to blood testing for doping control in sports. The following is the abstract of the article as it appeared in Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 31(4): 497-501, 1999. “Sport authorities continue to confront a variety of perplex
