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A History of Drug Use in Sport: 1876 - 1976 - Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback, New)
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A History of Drug Use in Sport: 1876 - 1976 - Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback, New)
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This book offers a new history of drug use in sport. It argues that
the idea of taking drugs to enhance performance has not always been
the crisis or 'evil' we now think it is. Instead, the late
nineteenth century was a time of some experimentation and
innovation largely unhindered by talk of cheating or health risks.
By the interwar period, experiments had been modernised in the new
laboratories of exercise physiologists. Still there was very little
sense that this was contrary to the ethics or spirit of sport.
Sports, drugs and science were closely linked for over half a
century. The Second World War provided the impetus for both
increased use of drugs and the emergence of an anti-doping
response. By the end of the 1950s a new framework of ethics was
being imposed on the drugs question that constructed doping in
highly emotive terms as an 'evil'. Alongside this emerged the
science and procedural bureaucracy of testing. The years up to 1976
laid the foundations for four decades of anti-doping. This book
offers a detailed and critical understanding of who was involved,
what they were trying to achieve, why they set about this task and
the context in which they worked. By doing so, it reconsiders the
classic dichotomy of 'good anti-doping' up against 'evil doping'.
Winner of the 2007 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for the best book
in British sports history.
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