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Doping in elite sport : the politics of drugs in the Olympic movement / Wayne Wilson and Edward Derse, editors.
- Title
- Doping in elite sport : the politics of drugs in the Olympic movement / Wayne Wilson and Edward Derse, editors.
- Publication
- Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, c2001.
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- Description
- xv, 295 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- From a 1998 conference sponsored by the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles, 11 studies cover the science of doping and testing; its history, ethics, and social context; and its politics. Among them are a comparison of how Canada, Russia, and China have responded to doping scandals involving their athletes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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- Genre/Form
- Congress
- Note
- Based on papers delivered at a conference organized by the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- pt. 1. The science of Doping -- What is doping and how is it detected? / R. Craig Kammerer -- Doping control testing policies and procedures: a critique / David L. Black -- Difficulties in estimating the prevalence of drug use among athletes / Charles E. Yesalis III, Andrea N. Kopstein, and Michael S. Bahrke -- pt. 2. The history, ethics, and social context of doping -- Significant events in the history of drug testing and the Olympic movement: 1960-1999 / Jan Todd and Terry Todd -- An ethical analysis of drug testing / Angela J. Schneider and Robert B. Butcher -- Comparative analysis of doping scandals: Canada, Russia, and China / Bruce Kidd, Robert Edelman, and Susan Brownell -- Drugs, Sport, and national identity in Australia / Tara Magdalinski -- pt. 3. The politics of doping -- Doping and moral authority: sport organizations today / John J. MacAloon -- Doping in Elite swimming: a case study of the modern era from 1970 forward / John Leonard -- How drug testing fails: the politics of doping control / John Hoberman -- World conference on doping in sport / Jim Ferstle.
- ISBN
- 0736003290
- LCCN
- ^^^00033599^
- OCLC
- 44089413
- SCSB-10244694
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library