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Uncertainty Prevails on Sports DNA Tests |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / FEATURE |
| Author: Bob Cohn |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2006 |
| Size: 1,247 Words, 7,638 Characters |
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Eddy Curry, a twenty-two-year-old player in the National Basketball Association who missed nineteen games in the 2004-2005 season because of an irregular heartbeat, refused the Chicago Bulls' request that he take a DNA test to determine whether he is susceptible to a potentially fatal heart condition. He was traded on October 4, 2005, to the New York Knicks, and he passed his physical days later.
These are the facts. A great deal of uncertainty remains, however. Not just about Curry's health but about the increasingly sophisticated and perhaps intimidating methods used to test and analyze the insides of athletes. What are the ethics of such testing? Does it work? Where might it lead? And how much information about a person is too much?
"I think there are valid points on both sides,...
. . .
...slippery slope," Roby said. "With advances in technology and science, there are going to be situations where you will know just about anything and everything about someone in terms of what they put in their bodies and their history and what their future medical life will be…. It's important for people on both sides of the argument to work together."
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