Documents Harris, John 2 results

"In January, 2007 it was announced that England international David Beckham, one of the most famous footballers in the world, would join the Los Angeles Galaxy in the U.S. This announcement brought global media attention for Major League Soccer (MLS) and suggestions that Beckham's signing would be the launch pad for the further development of the professional game in the country. Some four years after Beckham's arrival, this article assesses the positioning of MLS and looks at the current standing of the league in relation to labor migration patterns and internationalization by focusing specifically on the place of English players in this league. It attempts to provide an overview of the positioning of the league within an international context and also explores the interrelationship between two nations where football means quite different things. The work contributes to research on athletic migration and the internationalization of sports labor in the U.S. by teasing out some of the key issues shaping the contemporary soccer product."

"This paper identifies human enhancement as one of the most significant areas of bioethical interest in the last twenty years. It discusses in more detail one area, namely moral enhancement, which is generating significant contemporary interest. The author argues that so far from being susceptible to new forms of high tech manipulation, either genetic, chemical, surgical or neurological, the only reliable methods of moral enhancement, either now or for the foreseeable future, are either those that have been in human and animal use for millennia, namely socialization, education and parental supervision or those high tech methods that are general in their application. By that is meant those forms of cognitive enhancement that operate across a wide range of cognitive abilities and do not target specifically ‘ethical' capacities. The paper analyses the work of some of the leading contemporary advocates of moral enhancement and finds that in so far as they identify moral qualities or moral emotions for enhancement they have little prospect of success."