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April Henning is Lecturer in Sport Studies at the University of Stirling, and is co-author (with Jesper Andreasson) of Performance Cultures and Doped Bodies: Challenging Categories, Gender Norms, and Policy Responses (2021). Paul Dimeo is Associate Professor in Sport Studies at the University of Stirling. His books include A History of Drug Use in Sport, 1876–1976 and (with Verner Møller) The Anti-Doping Crisis in Sport.
A very readable global overview and updating of doping and anti-doping in amateur and professional sport: testing, scandals, and suggestions for improvement... All told, this is a must-read. -- Choice Henning and Dimeo, both academics in the relatively novel discipline of sports studies, provide a broad overview of how doping has developed in elite sport, referencing all the most high-profile offenders. . . . They show how governing bodies were slow to react to the use of chemical compounds in sport, given that, in the West, they were seen as a potentially helpful solution to various physical and psychiatric problems. -- Times Literary Supplement A highly accessible and thoroughly researched historical account of doping and anti-doping in elite sport. Doping: A Sporting History demonstrates why the 'cops and robbers' account of doping, in which seemingly morally justified anti-doping crusaders are pitted against athletic 'cheats, ' is both false and misleading. The authors make recommendations for genuine reforms that consider the lives of the most important members of elite sport--the athletes themselves. --Ian Ritchie, coauthor of Fastest, Highest, Strongest: A Critique of High-Performance Sport
The Anti-Doping Crisis in Sport...
Causes, Consequences, Solutions...
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Doping in Cycling
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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WADA, the World Anti-Doping Agency...
A Multi-Level Legitimacy Analysis...
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