Drugs, Alcohol and Sport

A Critical History

By J A Mangan, Boria Majumdar

Edited by Paul Dimeo

Series: Sport in the Global Society 

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Table of Contents

1. The Sons of Lush: Tom Wills, Alcohol and the Colonial Cricketer 2. Drink and the Professional Footballer in 1890s England and Ireland 3. Alcohol and the Sportsperson: An Anomalous Alliance 4. From the Gentlemanly Amateur to High Performance Sport: The Paradigm Shift in the Science of ‘Training’ 5. Rethinking the History of Drugs in Sport 6. Anabolic Steroid and Stimulant use in North American Sport between 1850 and 1980 7. The Fabulous Fifties: The Birth of Modern Doping Policies in Australia 8. Knud Enemark Jensen’s Death during the 1960 Rome Olympics: A Search for Truth? 9. Changing Patterns of Drug use in British Sport from the 1960s 10. The Legacy of Festina: Patterns of Drug use in European Cycling since 1998 11. The Quest for the Imaginary Evil: A Critique of Anti-Doping

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