Why do many athletes risk their careers by taking
performance-enhancing drugs? Do the highly competitive pressures of
elite sports teach athletes to win at any cost?
An Introduction to Drugs in Sport provides a detailed and
systematic examination of drug use in sport and attempts to explain
why athletes have, over the last four decades, increasingly used
performance-enhancing drugs. It offers a critical overview of the
major theories of drug use in sport, and provides a detailed
analysis of the involvement of sports physicians in the development
and use of performance-enhancing drugs. Focusing on drug use within
elite sport, the book offers an in-depth examination of important
contemporary themes and issues, including:
- the history of drugs in sport and changing patterns of use
- fair play, cheating and the spirit of sport
- WADA and the future of anti-doping policy
- drug use in professional football and cycling
- sociological enquiry and the problems of researching drugs in
sport.
Designed to help students explore and understand this
problematic area of research in sport studies, and richly
illustrated throughout with case studies and empirical data, An
Introduction to Drugs in Sport is an invaluable addition to the
literature. It is essential reading for anybody with an interest in
the relationship between drugs, sport and society.
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