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Pages: 256
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"The inside story about drug use in sport and its political cover-up, with a prescription for reform [by the] former chief medical officer for the United States
The War on Drugs in Sport
Language: en
Pages: 291
Authors: Vanessa McDermott
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-23 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book is an innovative and compelling work that develops a modified moral panic model illustrated by the drugs in sport debate. Drawing on Max Weber’s wor
The Anti-Doping Crisis in Sport
Language: en
Pages: 197
Authors: Paul Dimeo
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-24 - Publisher: Routledge

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The sense of crisis that pervades global sport suggests that the war on doping is still very far from being won. In this critical and provocative study of anti-
An Introduction to Drugs in Sport
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Ivan Waddington
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-13 - Publisher: Routledge

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An Introduction to Drugs in Sport provides a detailed and systematic examination of the extent of drug use in sport and attempts to explain why athletes have, o
A History of Drug Use in Sport: 1876 - 1976
Language: en
Pages: 166
Authors: Paul Dimeo
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-03-10 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book offers a new history of drug use in sport. It argues that the idea of taking drugs to enhance performance has not always been the crisis or ‘evil’