Drugs and Performance Enhancement Books

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1. Sports Law, 4th Edition

   By Simon Gardiner, John O'Leary, Roger Welch, Simon Boyes, Urvasi Naidoo

   Long established as the market leading textbook on sports law, this much-anticipated new edition offers a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the legal issues surrounding and governing sport internationally. Locating the legal regulation of sport within an explicit socio-economic context...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-59183-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Drugs in Sport, 5th Edition

   Edited by David R Mottram

   Drug use and abuse is perhaps the biggest challenge facing sport today. However, in the eye of the storm of public and press opinion and with medals and morals at stake it can be difficult to gain a clear perspective on this complex issue. Drugs in Sport is the most comprehensive and accurate text...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-55087-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Pharmacology, Doping and Sports: A Scientific Guide for Athletes, Coaches, Physicians, Scientists and Administrators

   Edited by Jean L. Fourcroy

   The work of dope testers is constantly being obstructed by the development of ever harder-to-trace new forms of banned substances. Organisations such as the World Anti-Doping Association and the United States Anti-Doping Agency are pioneering cutting-edge techniques ...

   February 2010 | 978-0-415-57822-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Drugs, Alcohol and Sport: A Critical History

   Edited by Paul Dimeo

   The use of alcohol and drugs seems contradictory to the popular ideal of sport as a healthy moral and physical pursuit, and yet it has been present in sports culture since clubs first became the focus for competitive games and social gatherings. Charting the changing patterns of the use of drugs...

   October 2009 | 978-0-415-56848-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Ethics of Doping and Anti-Doping: Redeeming the Soul of Sport?

   By Verner Moller

   With every positive drugs test the credibility and veracity of modern elite sport is diminished. In this radical and provocative critique of current anti-doping policy and practice, Verner Møller argues that the fight against doping – promoted as an initiative to cleanse sport of cheats – is at...

   August 2009 | 978-0-415-48466-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Ethics of Sports Medicine

   Edited by Claudio Tamburrini, Torbjörn Tännsjö

   The book aims to establish a critical dialogue between sports ethicists and bioethicists across the range of sporting disciplines at elite level. It will address questions such as: Are the increasingly intrusive testing methods of elite sports compatible with the right to autonomy and privacy...

   June 2009 | 978-0-415-48051-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   An Introduction to Drugs in Sport: Addicted to Winning?, 2nd Edition

   By Ivan Waddington, Andy Smith

   Why do many athletes risk their careers by taking performance-enhancing drugs? Do the highly competitive pressures of elite sports teach athletes to win at any cost? An Introduction to Drugs in Sport provides a detailed and systematic examination of drug use in sport and attempts to explain why...

   2008 | 978-0-415-43125-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   A History of Drug Use in Sport: 1876 – 1976: Beyond Good and Evil

   By Paul Dimeo

   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’ we now think it is. Instead, the late nineteenth century was a time of some experimentation and innovation largely unhindered by talk of...

   2007 | 978-0-415-35772-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Genetic Technology and Sport: Ethical Questions

   Edited by Claudio Tamburrini, Torbjörn Tännsjö

   Will the genetic design of athletes destroy sport … or will it lead to a new and extraordinary age of athletic achievement? Exploring a new territory in sport and ethics, this edited collection contains some of the best new writing that has emerged from the debates concerning the uses of genetic...

   2005 | 978-0-415-34237-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Drugs in Sport, 4th Edition

    With the recent major updates in worldwide anti-doping laws and changes to the prohibited and therapeutic exemption lists, this fourth edition of the bestselling Drugs in Sport presents authoritative, hard science information about the actions of drugs, hormones, medication and nutritional...

    2005 | 978-0-415-37564-1 | Paperback (Routledge)