Doping: A Sporting History - Hardcover

Henning, April; Dimeo, Paul

 
9781789145274: Doping: A Sporting History
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1789145279 ISBN 13: 9781789145274
Verlag: Reaktion Books, 2022

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A gripping, provocative history of doping in sports—packed with examples—that proposes a new emphasis for modern anti-doping efforts.
 
Why is doping a perennial problem for sports? Is this solely a contemporary phenomenon? And should doping always be regarded as cheating, or do today’s anti-doping measures go too far?
 
Drawing on case studies from the early twentieth century to the present day, Doping: A Sporting History explores why the current anti-doping system looks as it does, charting its origins to the founding of the modern Olympic Games. From interwar notions of sporting purity to the postwar stimulant crisis, what seemed an easily resolvable problem soon became an impossible challenge as the pharmacology improved, the policy system stuttered, and Cold War politics allowed doping to flourish. The late twentieth century saw the creation of the World Anti-Doping Agency, but has the intensity of these global measures led to unintended harms?
 
From the cyclist Tommy Simpson who died in 1967 on Mont Ventoux with amphetamines in his jersey to Team Russia’s expulsion from the 2018 Winter Olympics, Doping: A Sporting History is a gripping, provocative account that ultimately proposes a new approach: one for the inclusion and protection of athletes themselves.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

April Henning is a lecturer in sport studies at the University of Stirling. She is coauthor of Performance Cultures and Doped Bodies: Challenging Categories, Gender Norms, and Policy Responses. Paul Dimeo is associate professor in sport studies at the University of Stirling. His books include A History of Drug Use in Sport, 1876–1976 and The Anti-Doping Crisis in Sport.

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A gripping, provocative account of doping in sport.

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Verlag
Reaktion Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1789145279
ISBN 13 
9781789145274
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
237
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