This volume provides fresh insights into sports doping as well as under-researched areas, offering practical and theoretical knowledge for academics, practitioners and policymakers. Key features include a global perspective, contributions from leadi...Loe edasi...
This is the first book to focus on the topic of doping in esports. As the global esports industry continues to grow, this book critiques current anti-doping practices and considers the role that the World Anti-Doping Agency and the International Oly...Loe edasi...
This book is the first to take a close look at artificial intelligence and neuroenhancement in the context of sport, and at the potential of new technologies to act as enablers of neurodoping. This book is important reading for any advanced student,...Loe edasi...
Tracing the history of sports medicine from the ancient world through to the present day, this book shines new light on the embedded relationship between physicians, performance enhancement and doping in elite sport....Loe edasi...
This is the first book to focus on the problem of performance-enhancing substances and methods - also known as doping - in sports from African perspectives....Loe edasi...
This book collates findings from biology, neuroscience, psychology, physiology and sport and exercise science, to help students and practitioners better understand the integration of body, brain, and mind, and to make more informed decisions in enha...Loe edasi...
Doping in Non-Olympic Sports; Challenging the legitimacy of WADA? argues against the International Olympic Committee (IOC) run regime where WADA Code compliance is used as the only parameter to define an activity as sport....Loe edasi...
Examining the legitimacy of the World Anti-Doping Agency, this book offers a critical analysis of the anti-doping system and the social and behavioural processes that shape policy, asking why the current system is failing....Loe edasi...
The book explores the changing landscape of anti-doping investigations, which now largely centre on the collection of intelligence about doping through processes such as surveillance, interviews with witnesses and interrogation of athletes....Loe edasi...
Following the recent doping scandals that have brought the highest echelons of international sport into disrepute, this book examines the elitism at the core of the World Anti-Doping Agency and considers how the current World Anti-Doping Code might...Loe edasi...
In this provocative and thought-provoking book, Professor of Ethics Thomas S¸birk Petersen explains why the World Anti-Doping Agencys doping rules are poorly justified and makes a case for a new third way in anti-doping policy that would allow athle...Loe edasi...
Doping in Cycling provides an up-to-date overview of the knowledge about doping and anti-doping in cycling. Featuring cross-disciplinary contributions from international leading scholars, it critically addresses overarching questions, and topical is...Loe edasi...
Exercise and Sport Pharmacology is an essential book for teaching about how drugs can affect exercise and how exercise can affect the action of drugs. It provides the related pathology, exercise physiology, and drug action of many chronically used m...Loe edasi...
This informative volume takes readers on an objective look at a myriad health and performance claims that stem from the fitness industry and, in so doing, looks at the plausibility of, and evidence for, the most popular sports products and supplemen...Loe edasi...
This book offers a detailed history of how sports doctors across the twentieth century constructed the concept doping and used it to insert themselves into elite, international sport. It explains how the use of pharmacology became a normal part of...Loe edasi...
This book presents a performance and image enhancing substance typology, providing a comprehensive, empirically-based analysis of each substance category and highlighting the patterns, scope, and volume of use. It reviews the programs and interventi...Loe edasi...
This provocative study of anti-doping regimes in global sport argues that the current system is at a critical historical juncture. Reviewing the recent history of anti-doping, it highlights serious problems within the World Anti-Doping Agency and wa...Loe edasi...
As recent high-profile drugs scandals have demonstrated, sport organisations rarely have a coherent, meaningful, long-term management strategy regarding drug use and abuse...Loe edasi...
This important book examines doping as a public health issue, drawing on a multi-disciplinary set of perspectives to explore the prevalence, significance and consequences of doping in wider society. It introduces the epidemiology of doping, examines...Loe edasi...
