Doping : a sporting history / April Henning and Paul Dimeo.
By: Henning, April [author.].
Contributor(s): Dimeo, Paul [author.].
Publisher: London, UK : Reaktion Books Ltd, ©2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 237 p: illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1789145279; 9781789145274.Subject(s): Doping in sports -- History | Athletes -- Drug use -- History | Sports -- Corrupt practicesGenre/Form: History. | Print books.Summary: A gripping, provocative history of doping in sports-packed with examples-that proposes a new emphasis for modern anti-doping efforts. Why is doping a perennial problem for sports? Is this solely a contemporary phenomenon? And should doping always be regarded as cheating, or do today's anti-doping measures go too far? Drawing on case studies from the early twentieth century to the present day, Doping: A Sporting History explores why the current anti-doping system looks as it does, charting its origins to the founding of the modern Olympic Games. From interwar notions of sporting purity to the postwar stimulant crisis, what seemed an easily resolvable problem soon became an impossible challenge as the pharmacology improved, the policy system stuttered, and Cold War politics allowed doping to flourish. The late twentieth century saw the creation of the World Anti-Doping Agency, but has the intensity of these global measures led to unintended harms?| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index
A gripping, provocative history of doping in sports-packed with examples-that proposes a new emphasis for modern anti-doping efforts. Why is doping a perennial problem for sports? Is this solely a contemporary phenomenon? And should doping always be regarded as cheating, or do today's anti-doping measures go too far? Drawing on case studies from the early twentieth century to the present day, Doping: A Sporting History explores why the current anti-doping system looks as it does, charting its origins to the founding of the modern Olympic Games. From interwar notions of sporting purity to the postwar stimulant crisis, what seemed an easily resolvable problem soon became an impossible challenge as the pharmacology improved, the policy system stuttered, and Cold War politics allowed doping to flourish. The late twentieth century saw the creation of the World Anti-Doping Agency, but has the intensity of these global measures led to unintended harms?