Mike McNamee is Professor of Applied Ethics at the University of Swansea. He teaches healthcare and medical ethics. His research interests are in the ethics of medicine and healthcare and the ethics of sports, and research ethics. He is a former President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport, and was the founding Chair of the British Philosophy of Sport Association. He serves/has served on the Executive Committee on many national and international associations including the European College of Sport Science, the International Council for sport Science and Physical Education and the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain. He is the founding Editor of Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17511321.asp). He has written or edited (singly and in collaboration) 11 books in applied philosophy and ethics in sport and health, including Sports, Virtues and Vices: morality play (Routledge, 2008) (http://www.routledgesport.com/books/Sports-Virtues-and-Vices-isbn9780415194099) and he just completed the Routledge Reader in Sports Ethics (Routledge, 2010).

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