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Doping in Elite Sports

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Doping in Elite Sports book

Voices of French Sportspeople and Their Doctors, 1950-2010

Doping in Elite Sports

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Doping in Elite Sports book

Voices of French Sportspeople and Their Doctors, 1950-2010
ByChristophe Brissonneau, Jeffrey Montez de Oca
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 15 December 2017
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315523538
Pages 248 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315523538
SubjectsSports and Leisure
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Brissonneau, C., de Oca, J. (2018). Doping in Elite Sports. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315523538

Drawing on rich empirical material from elite French sport, this book offers a detailed history of how the concept of doping evolved from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. The first study to span the period from 1950 to 2010, it sheds new light on the extraordinary world of elite sport in France – a world governed by its own moral standards and defined by extreme expectations of physical performance and highly medicalised training regimes.

Including exclusive insights from athletes and their doctors, it explains how the use of drugs became an integral part of training in elite French sport. Considering the complex and paradoxical moral arguments that frame this phenomenon, it explores the decades-long social and political process that resulted in the normalisation of this doping culture. Drawing on examples from cycling, athletics, weightlifting, wrestling and bodybuilding, this book compares doping practices in these sports and questions the effectiveness of anti-doping policies.

This is fascinating reading for all those interested in the use of drugs in sports, the ethics and philosophy of sport, or sports history.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|26 pages

Introduction

When the extraordinary is normal, deviance is good
WithChristophe Brissonneau, Montez de Oca Jeffrey

chapter 2|27 pages

Sports medicine and creating the definition of doping

WithChristophe Brissonneau, Montez de Oca Jeffrey

chapter 3|28 pages

The structural ambivalence of sports medicine

WithChristophe Brissonneau, Montez de Oca Jeffrey

chapter 4|34 pages

Rationalism, training and medicine in cycling, I990–2000 1

WithChristophe Brissonneau, Montez de Oca Jeffrey

chapter 5|24 pages

Training models and pharmacology in athletics, 1960–2000 1

WithChristophe Brissonneau, Montez de Oca Jeffrey

chapter 6|28 pages

Pharmacological careers in wrestling and weightlifting, 1980s

WithChristophe Brissonneau, Montez de Oca Jeffrey

chapter 7|30 pages

Bodybuilding and the freedom to choose

WithChristophe Brissonneau, Montez de Oca Jeffrey

chapter 8|23 pages

New policy, new doping careers, 2000–2010

WithChristophe Brissonneau, Montez de Oca Jeffrey

chapter 9|9 pages

Conclusion

Why doctors care so much about doping
WithChristophe Brissonneau, Montez de Oca Jeffrey
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