With every positive drugs test the credibility and veracity of
modern elite sport is diminished. In this radical and provocative
critique of current anti-doping policy and practice, Verner Moller
argues that the fight against doping promoted as an initiative to
cleanse sport of cheats is at heart nothing less than a battle to
save sport from itself, located on the fault-line between the will
to purity and the will to win.
Drawing on extensive and detailed case studies of doping in
sport, and using a highly original blend of conceptual ideas from
philosophy and sociology, Moller strongly criticises current
anti-doping regimes and challenges our commonly held ideas about
the nature of sport and the risks posed by drugs to health and fair
play. He argues forcefully that we must understand the precarious
position of the athlete and that only by containing coaches,
doctors and drug companies within the anti-doping regime can we
hope to ever make progress on this most important issue.
Written in a lively and engaging style, and skilfully blending
empirical case studies with cutting edge theory, this book
represents an important statement on the nature of sport, morality
and modernity. It is important reading for all serious students and
scholars of the ethics, sociology and politics of sport.
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