This is a book about the future of exercise physiology as a healthcare profession. It is not a book about exercise physiology as a research discipline, but about you, the student of exercise physiology, and about the academic exercise physiologists, and how they can create a credible future for their students. This book was written with the express purpose of talking about the change process and how it is needed for exercise physiologists to work in healthcare. For instance, there are chapters about giving shape to the future, professionalism and leadership, and the courage to do what seems to be the impossible. Deep within each of us is the need to face reality with hope and courage to speak from the heart. It is here that real change and a shared vision takes place. Thus, this book is my effort to show the reader how to go about creating professionalism in exercise physiology. It is here that the reader comes to understand the importance of the ASEP Board Certification, Code of Ethics, Accreditation, and Standards of Professional Practice. After all, exercise is medicine, and the ASEP leadership has provided the blueprint to assist the academic community in developing this awareness and applying it to all aspects of exercise physiology tomorrow and beyond.
This book argues that cheating not only destroys the integrity of sports, it destroys the integrity of the athlete and everyone who either supports cheating or allows it to happen. Majors topics such as "athletics is over the edge,""performance-enhancing substances,""victory with honor,""negative impact of marketers," and "accountability" are discussed in reference to the "cheat pushers" who must not be allowed access to those who love athletics.
The first of its kind, this book examines the anecdotal evidence and the empirical literature pertaining to the physiology of sexual activities, seeking to dispel myths associated with sex's negative impact on athletic performance.
The scientific understanding of genetics began with Mendel's discovery of the basic laws of inheritance. The understanding of the genetic implications in human disease developed with the discovery of the laws of the inheritance of hemophilia. The ongoing Human Genome Project will vastly increase our knowledge and understanding of the human genetic make-up. The application of medical genetic knowledge in individual human situations, or even the pursuit of this knowledge, can raise issues of the rightness or wrongness of these actions, and may therefore have ethical implications. Since genetics can include therapeutic gene manipulations, including germ (or inheritable) cell alterations, as well as genetic mapping and patient counseling, these bioethical issues can have profound ramifications. The Catholic ethical tradition, rooted in philosophy and religion, offers a traditional perspective regarding human medical genetics. This book is an application of these principles in this rapidly developing area of medicine.
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