1st Edition

Drugs, Alcohol and Sport A Critical History

Edited By Paul Dimeo Copyright 2007
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

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 and alcohol since the nineteenth century, this is a critical history that relates substance... Read more

1. The Sons of Lush: Tom Wills, Alcohol and the Colonial Cricketer Gregory M. de Moore  2. Drink and the Professional Footballer in 1890s England and Ireland Pamela Dixon and Neal Garnham  3. Alcohol and the Sportsperson: An Anomalous Alliance Wray Vamplew  4. From Fixed Capacities to Performance-Enhancement: The Paradigm Shift in the Science of ‘Training’ and the Use of Performance-Enhancing Substances Rob Beamish and Ian Ritchie  5. Anabolic Steroid and Stimulant Use in North American Sport between 1850 and 1980 Charles E. Yesalis and Michael S. Bahrke  6. Knud Enemark Jensen’s Death During the 1960 Rome Olympics: A Search for Truth? Verner Møller  7. Changing Patterns of Drug Use in British Sport from the 1960s Ivan Waddington  8. The Legacy of Festina: Patterns of Drug Use in European Cycling Since 1998 Ask Vest Christiansen  9. The Quest for the Imaginary Evil: A Critique of Anti-Doping Kristian Rasmussen

Biography

Dimeo, Paul