Doping in Sport

Reviews / Votes

"Thomas Sobirk Petersen is a philosopher renowned for ruffling mainstream thinking by controversial ideas about a broad range of topics. As an untiring challenger of common sense, Petersen has demonstrated that challenging established perceptions can yield interesting insights. His new book Legalising Doping in Sport is testament to that."

Verner Moller, Professor in the Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark

"There are few topics more loaded with hypocrisy, bullshit (in the sense of saying things with no regard for truth or falsity), implicit and politically correct assumptions never justified, than in the discussion about doping in sport. This book is different. With the author's analytical rigor and sharp eye at all the contradictory views, it prepares the way for critical and systematic thought about the subject. I congratulate the author for having had the courage to write this timely book. It was a pleasure to read it."

Torbjoern Taennsjoe, Professor of Practical Philosophy, Stockholm University, Sweden

"Analyzing the most widespread colloquial and scholarly arguments for banning doping, Thomas Sobirk Petersen provides a passionate and thought-provoking defense of the need to include pro-doping voices in the debate on whether the World Anti-Doping Agency should allow performance-enhancing substances and methods."

Francisco Javier Lopez Frias, Assistant Professor, Health and Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, USA "Thomas Sobirk Petersen is a philosopher renowned for ruffling mainstream thinking by controversial ideas about a broad range of topics. As an untiring challenger of common sense, Petersen has demonstrated that challenging established perceptions can yield interesting insights. His new book Doping in Sport is testament to that."

Verner Moller, Professor in the Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark

"There are few topics more loaded with hypocrisy, bullshit (in the sense of saying things with no regard for truth or falsity), implicit and politically correct assumptions never justified, than in the discussion about doping in sport. This book is different. With the author's analytical rigor and sharp eye at all the contradictory views, it prepares the way for critical and systematic thought about the subject. I congratulate the author for having had the courage to write this timely book. It was a pleasure to read it."

Torbjoern Taennsjoe, Professor of Practical Philosophy, Stockholm University, Sweden

"Analysing the most widespread colloquial and scholarly arguments for banning doping, Thomas Sobirk Petersen provides a passionate and thought-provoking defense of the need to include pro-doping voices in the debate on whether the World Anti-Doping Agency should allow performance-enhancing substances and methods."

Francisco Javier Lopez Frias, Assistant Professor, Health and Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, USA

"The argumentation is unerringly astute, the tone of voice sober, and the conclusions couldn't be more compelling... Congratulations to professor Petersen for a thoroughly untimely book which will definitely be feted as a prophetic masterpiece towards the mid-twenty-first century."

Erkki Vetten--niemi, idrottsforum.org