Ethics is a contested term with multiple and fragmented meanings. Within this course, ethics refers to the philosophical and empirical study of the moral and existential controversies brought about by advances in late modern biological, technological, and medical intervention on/to human bodies. Within the diverse field of kinesiology, physical education, health, leisure, and exercise sciences we are not immune to ethical issues and controversies; quite to the contrary. The testing of/on bodies and their modification, the promotion of physical cultural practices among varied populations, the use of technology to research/enhance human movement, the impacts of moving bodies on the environment, and the study of health and wellness practices must involve the reflexive questioning of ethics within our discipline. This course enhances our collective understanding of the institutional mechanisms and practices by which meanings are attached to bodies in medical/health fields like kinesiology; including an analysis of moral questions regarding how kinesiologists undertake research which develops, enhances, extends, reworks, or remodels bodies in a variety of physical cultures. Students will engage a range of philosophical concepts and ideas relating to normative ethics, applied ethics, and bioethics and explore them through issues and topics we cover in the course. Specific reference will be made to competing perspectives on what is ethical, moral, or right in a contemporary of kinesiology underpinned by an exercise-as-medicine/public health interventionist mandate. Students will be expected to demonstrate knowledge of ethical debates in kinesiology and critically evaluate the relationship between bodies, health, technology, late capitalism, culture and society.