Paul Dimeo (ed.)

Drugs, Alcohol and Sport

A Critical History
Herausgeber: Dimeo, Paul

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Previously published as a special issue of Sport in History, these essays look at one of the most controversial topics in sport today and ask incisive questions about popular notions of the body in sport.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 162mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780415400169
• ISBN-10: 0415400163
• Artikelnr.: 22539349

Autorenporträt

Dimeo, Paul

Inhaltsangabe

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