Disciplinary technologies, Andrew graduated from Queen's University in 1974. Currently Chief of the Division of Prevention and Rehabilitation at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, he is a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. In addition to his clinical responsibilities, Andrew has been extensively involved in sports and sport medicine for many years. Currently he is the President of the Commonwealth Games Association of Canada, has served as a physician at eight Olympic Games and has been the Team Physician for Canada's National Men's Basketball Team since 1978. A member of the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame, Andrew served as Chair of the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport from its inception until 2003.

Enhancing Sport Performance: Character, Culture, Coaching or Chemistry?

Attempts to enhance sport performance have traditionally reflected an accentuation of skill, a burnishing of sport-specific tactics, and an augmentation of ‘fitness’. A contemporary challenge in sport is to distinguish those enhancement strategies which are seen as in keeping with established norms of sport practice, and those which are viewed as transgressing a standard of ‘appropriate sporting behaviour’. The programmes designed to curb performance-enhancing drug use are intended to address such a challenge. Sport is practiced in accordance with rules and norms that are ultimately arbitrary. Those vested with responsibility for the preservation of ‘fair play’ apply rules that can also be seen as arbitrary – their approaches represent an application, in part, of the “disciplinary technologies” – but which seek to ensure safety, fair-play and enduring public support of sport.

Held, September 2011.