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Author Møller, Verner

Title Routledge Handbook of Drugs and Sport
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (479 pages)
Series Routledge International Handbooks
Routledge international handbooks.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; List of contributors; List of abbreviations; Introduction; PART 1 The construction of the doping problem; 1 The concept of doping; 2 Understanding performance-enhancing substances and sanctions against their use from the perspective of history; 3 Is concern about sports doping a moral panic?; 4 The spirit of sport and the World Anti-Doping Code; 5 Performance-enhancing biomedical technology in sport: where are the limits?; PART 2 Drug use in various sports; 6 Drug use in athletics; 7 Drug use in baseball; 8 Drug use in cycling
9 Drug use in professional football10 Drug use in skiing; 11 Drug use in swimming; 12 Drug use in animal sports; PART 3 Key cases; 13 Ben Johnson, steroids, and the spirit of high-performance sport; 14 The East German doping programme; 15 The 1998 Tour de France: Festina, from scandal to an affair in cycling; 16 Lance Armstrong; PART 4 Anti-doping policy and politics; 17 Anti-doping policy before 1999; 18 Bilateral collaboration: a tool to improve anti-doping compliance?; 19 Anti-doping education for athletes; 20 Doping prevention -- demands and reality: why education of athletes is not enough
21 The future of anti-doping policy22 Revisiting the drugs-in-sport problem: a manifesto for a new deal; PART 5 Key themes; 23 The Prohibited List and its implications; 24 'Strict liability' and legal rights: nutritional supplements, 'intent' and 'risk' in the parallel world of WADA; 25 WADA's whereabouts requirements and privacy; 26 Implications of anti-doping regulations for athletes' well-being; 27 Effectiveness, proportionality and deterrence: does criminalizing doping deliver?; 28 Healthy doping: why we should legalise performance-enhancing drugs in sport
29 Doping and performance enhancement: harms and harm reductionPART 6 Approaches to understanding doping in elite sport; 30 Drug use and deviant overconformity; 31 Game theoretic approaches to doping in sport; 32 Towards an understanding of drug use in sport: a medical sociological perspective; PART 7 Drug use outside elite sport; 33 Drug use in gyms; 34 Dopers in uniform: police officers' use of anabolic steroids in the United States; Index
Notes Print version record
Form Electronic book
Author Waddington, Ivan
Hoberman, John M
ISBN 9780203795347
0203795342