Sport-related concussion research agenda beyond medical science: culture, ethics, science, policy



McNamee, Mike, Anderson, Lynley C, Borry, Pascal, Camporesi, Silvia, Derman, Wayne, Holm, Soren, Knox, Taryn Rebecca, Leuridan, Bert, Loland, Sigmund, Lopez Frias, Francisco Javier
et al (show 6 more authors) (2023) Sport-related concussion research agenda beyond medical science: culture, ethics, science, policy. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS. jme-2022-108812-.

Access the full-text of this item by clicking on the Open Access link.

Abstract

The Concussion in Sport Group guidelines have successfully brought the attention of brain injuries to the global medical and sport research communities, and has significantly impacted brain injury-related practices and rules of international sport. Despite being the global repository of state-of-the-art science, diagnostic tools and guides to clinical practice, the ensuing consensus statements remain the object of ethical and sociocultural criticism. The purpose of this paper is to bring to bear a broad range of multidisciplinary challenges to the processes and products of sport-related concussion movement. We identify lacunae in scientific research and clinical guidance in relation to age, disability, gender and race. We also identify, through multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary analysis, a range of ethical problems resulting from conflicts of interest, processes of attributing expertise in sport-related concussion, unjustifiably narrow methodological control and insufficient athlete engagement in research and policy development. We argue that the sport and exercise medicine community need to augment the existing research and practice foci to understand these problems more holistically and, in turn, provide guidance and recommendations that help sport clinicians better care for brain-injured athletes.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: ethics- medical, ethics, ethics- research, cultural diversity, decision making
Divisions: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of the Arts
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 19 Apr 2023 14:28
Last Modified: 16 Feb 2024 05:55
DOI: 10.1136/jme-2022-108812
Open Access URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jme-2022-108812
Related URLs:
URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3169753