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9780415431248

An Introduction to Drugs in Sport: Addicted to Winning?

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415431248

  • ISBN10:

    0415431247

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-01-29
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

An Introduction to Drugs in Sport provides a detailed and systematic examination of the extent of drug use in sport and attempts to explain why athletes have, over the last four decades, increasingly used performance-enhancing drugs. Richly illustrated throughout with case studies and empirical data, this book is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the relationship between drugs, sport and society.

Author Biography

Ivan Waddington is Visiting Professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo and the University of Chester, UK. He is the author of Sport, Health and Drugs (Routledge, 2000) and co-editor of Sport Histories (Routledge, 2004) and Pain and Injury in Sport (Routledge, 2006). Andy Smith is Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Chester Centre for Research into Sport and Society at the University of Chester, UK. He is co-editor of the International Journal of Sport Policy and Co-author of Sport Policy and Development (Routledge, 2009) and Disability, Sport and Society (Routledge, 2009).

Table of Contents

Prefacep. ix
Introductionp. 1
Drug use in sport: problems of involvement and detachmentp. 9
The emergence of drug use as a problem in modern sport: sport, health and drugsp. 16
The emergence of drug use as a problem in modern sport: fair play, cheating and the 'spirit of sport'p. 35
Theories of drug use in elite level sportp. 48
Drug use in elite level sport: towards a sociological understandingp. 64
The other side of sports medicine: sports medicine and the development of performance-enhancing drugsp. 83
The recent history of drug use in British sport: a case studyp. 102
Drug use in professional cycling: a case studyp. 129
Drug use in professional football: a case studyp. 155
The establishment of the World Anti-Doping Agencyp. 179
Anti-doping policies in sport: whither WADA?p. 200
Anti-doping policies in sport: new directions?p. 217
Notesp. 235
Bibliographyp. 238
Indexp. 251
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