ABSTRACT
Given the undoubted significance of the development of sports medicine for modern sporting competition-one writer has suggested that ‘the entire enterprise of elite sport is best understood as a recent chapter in the history of applied medical research into human biological development’ (Hoberman, 1992:4) —it is perhaps surprising that the development of sports medicine has received scant attention from both sports sociologists and medical sociologists. The central object of this chapter is build on the analysis in the last chapter and to examine further the changing relationship between sport and medicine. More specifically, this chapter focuses on two interrelated problems. The first part of the chapter traces in broad terms the development of sports medicine in the twentieth century. The second part focuses on some aspects of the relationship between the
development of sports medicine and the development and use of performance-enhancing drugs and techniques.
