A global history of doping in sport drugs, policy, and politics
From turn-of-the-century horseracing to the monolithic anti-doping attitudes now supported by sporting organizations, the development of anti-doping ideology has spread throughout modern sport. Yet heretofore few historians have explored the many ways that international sport has responded to doping...
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London ; New York, NY
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
[2015]
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| Series: | Sport in the global society. Historical perspectives
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: A global history of doping in sport : drugs, nationalism and politics / John Gleaves
- Pierre de Coubertin, doped 'amateurs' and the 'spirit of sport' : the role of mythology in Olympic anti-doping policies / Ian Ritchie
- Sport, drugs and amateurism : tracing the real cultural origins of anti-doping rules in international sport / John Gleaves and Matthew Llewellyn
- A powerful false positive : nationalism, science and public opinion in the 'oxygen doping' allegations against Japanese swimmers at the 1932 Olympics / Mark Dyreson and Thomas Rorke
- The myth of the Nazi steroid / Marcel Reinold and John Hoberman
- The emergence of moral technopreneurialism in sport : techniques in anti-doping regulation, 1966-1976 / Kathryn Henne
- Drugs, the law, and the downfall of Dancer's Image at the 1968 Kentucky Derby : a case study on human conceptions of domesticated animals / Thomas M. Hunt, Scott R. Jedlicka and Matthew T. Bowers
- Minor problems : the recognition of young athletes in the development of international anti-doping policies / Sarah Teetzel and Marcus Mazzucco
- Who guards the guardians? / Verner Møller
- Why Lance Armstrong? Historical context and key turning points in the 'cleaning up' of professional cycling / Paul Dimeo.