Drugs, Alcohol and Sport

Author:

By Paul Dimeo

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Hardback

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£70.00

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Social Science, Drugs, History and Politics of Sport

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Further Details

• Published: 14th Jul 2006
• ISBN: 0415400163
• Pages: 200

From the Publisher:

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 consumption and regulation to social relations of power: sports men and women almost revelling in their deviance and leaving the moral agonising to their supposed superiors. In addition, certain substances have become at various times the focus of heightened controversy, raising questions about the symbolism of the body in sport, its uses and behaviours and associated perceptions.
These questions are tackled here in a lively discussion on the social construction of drug and alcohol use, ideal as a catalyst for debate or as an informed introduction to the hottest topic in sport today.

This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in History.

Contents:
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