A History of Drug Use in Sport: 1876–1976

Beyond Good and Evil

By Paul Dimeo

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Acknowledgements. Prologue. Part 1 1. Sport, Drugs and Society 2. Doping and the Rise of Modern Sport, 1876-1918 3. The Science Gets Serious, 1920-1945 Part 2 4. Amphetamines and Post War Sport, 1945-1976 5. The Steroids Epidemic, 1945-1976 6. Dealing with the Scandal: Anti-Doping and the New Ethics of Sport, 1945-1965 7. Science, Morality and Policy: the Modernisation of Anti-Doping, 1965-1976 8. Doping, Anti-Doping and the Changing Values of Sport. Epilogue

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