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Eating disorders are mental illnesses that can have a significant and persistent physical impact, especially for those who are not treated early in their disease trajectory. Although many persons with eating disorders may make a full recovery, some may not; this is especially the case when it comes to persons with severe and enduring anorexia nervosa (SEAN), namely, those who have had anorexia for between 6 and 12 years or more. Given that persons with SEAN are less likely to make a full recovery, a different treatment philosophy might be ethically warranted. One potential yet scarcely considered way to treat persons with SEAN is that of a harm reduction approach. A harm reduction philosophy is deemed widely defensible in certain contexts (e.g. in the substance use and addictions domain), and in this paper we argue that it may be similarly ethically defensible for treating persons with SEAN in some circumstances.

Grant Farred’s The Burden of Over-representation: Race, Sport, and Philosophy analyzes three moments in sport history—in three chapters—through the intersecting lenses of race, identity, politics, ...

Sandy Montanola and Aurelie Olivesi’s Gender Testing in Sport: Ethics, cases and controversies is a timely and engaging book that includes nine chapters from authors of different disciplinary backg...

This paper considers whether transgender (trans*) women should be permitted to compete in female categories in sports. Trans* women are often criticized for competing in female categories because t...