An Introduction to Drugs in Sport
Addicted to Winning?, 2nd Edition
List Price: $49.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-43125-5
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 12/09/2008
- Pages: 280
- Trim Size: 234X156
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Table of Contents
1. Drug use in sport: problems of involvement and detachment 2. The emergence of drug use as a problem in modern sport:sport, health and drugs 3. The emergence of drug use as a problem in modern sport: fair play, cheating and the ‘spirit of sport’ 4. Theories of drug use in elite level sport 5. Drug use in elite level sport: towards a sociological understanding 6. The Other Side of Sports Medicine: Sports Medicine and the Development of Performance Enhancing Drugs 7. The recent history of drug use in British sport: a case study 8. Drug use in professional cycling: a case study 9. Drug use in professional football: a case study 10. The establishment of the World Anti-Doping Agency 11. Anti-doping policies in sport: whither WADA? 12. Anti-doping policies in sport: new directions?
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