Doping in Elite Sport
The Politics of Drugs and the Olympic Movement
Published on 25. August 2000
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-0-7360-0329-2 (ISBN)
Description
This historical and political overview of drug use in elite sport explains the procedures and protocols of drug testing, examines ethical dimensions of doping, and the political and economic factors that influence the attempts to control doping.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Champaign
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
18 black & white halftones
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7360-0329-2 (9780736003292)
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Content
How drug testing fails - the politics of doping control; what is doping and how is it detected? comparative analysis of doping scandals - Canada, Russia, and China; doping in elite swimming - a case study of the modern era from 1970 forward; doping an moral authority - sport organisations today; an ethical analysis of drug-testing; difficulties in estimating the prevalence of drug use; drugs, sport and national identity in Australia; Lousanne Doping Conference; difficulties in estimating the prevalence of drug use among elite athletes.