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Forthcoming textbook by Tanner Simkins
A sports ethics textbook for sport management, kinesiology and sports administration courses is in development. Title, publisher and release details will be announced here.
What it will cover
The book is being developed from a university sports ethics course. Its working scope:
- The ethical toolbox. Utilitarian, Kantian (duty), Virtue ethics, Justice & fairness (Rawls), Care ethics, Rights-based, and how to use more than one lens on a hard case.
- Practical decision-making. A step-by-step model for decisions in the moment: spot the issue, gather facts, test options, check codes and law, decide and document, communicate and follow up.
- The major issues in sport, unit by unit:
- Foundations & the ethical toolbox
- Codes & guardrails
- Sports media
- Branding & communication
- Integrity, fair play & gamesmanship
- Rules vs. spirit, gambling & game integrity
- Youth sport, parents & coaching
- Gender, race & diversity
- Ability, adaptive sport & the Paralympics
- Commercialism, labor & innovation
- Culture, safety, fans & social responsibility
- Governance, corruption & accountability
Every case on this site is tagged with the matching unit. Use the course unit filter to browse cases by theme, and the glossary for the frameworks and key terms.
For instructors: desk copies and teaching resources are coming soon. Until then, cases on this site may be linked and assigned freely. See About for citation guidance.