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02674aam a2200397Ii 4500 001 61F8725C3CC311EE8B657E6F2BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230817010032 008 211007t20222022enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781789145274 020 $a 1789145279 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d TOH $d UUC $d YDX $d OKX $d YBM $d OCL $d SILO 050 4 $a RC1230 $b .H46 2022 082 04 $a 362.29088796 $2 23 100 1 $a Henning, April, $e author. 245 10 $a Doping : $b a sporting history / $c April Henning and Paul Dimeo. 264 1 $a London, UK : $b Reaktion Books Ltd, $c 2022. 300 $a 237 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227) and index 520 $a A gripping, provocative history of doping in sports-packed with examples -- that proposes a new emphasis for modern anti-doping efforts. Why is doping a perennial problem for sports? Is this solely a contemporary phenomenon? And should doping always be regarded as cheating, or do today's anti-doping measures go too far? Drawing on case studies from the early twentieth century to the present day, Doping: A Sporting History explores why the current anti-doping system looks as it does, charting its origins to the founding of the modern Olympic Games. From interwar notions of sporting purity to the postwar stimulant crisis, what seemed an easily resolvable problem soon became an impossible challenge as the pharmacology improved, the policy system stuttered, and Cold War politics allowed doping to flourish. The late twentieth century saw the creation of the World Anti-Doping Agency, but has the intensity of these global measures led to unintended harms? 505 0 $a The origins of doping and anti-doping in modern sport -- Speed and steroids -- The beginnings of testing -- How doping became an epidemic -- The end of innocence -- Facing up to the scandals -- A new approach -- Problems and proposals. 650 0 $a Doping in sports $x History. 650 0 $a Athletes $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Sports $x Corrupt practices. 650 7 $a MEDICAL / Internal Medicine. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Sports $x Corrupt practices. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01130445 650 7 $a Athletes $x Drug use. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00820039 650 7 $a Doping in sports. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00896938 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 $a Dimeo, Paul, $d 1971- $e author. 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781789145281 941 $a 2 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214043352.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20230817010257.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=61F8725C3CC311EE8B657E6F2BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search