Doping in Elite Sports: Voices of French Sportspeople and Their Doctors, 1950-2010

ISBN-13: 9781138696709 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 248 str.

Christophe Brissonneau; Jeffrey Montez De Oca

Opis

Drawing on rich empirical material from elite French sport, 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. Including the voices of elite athletes, it explains how the use of pharmacology became a normal part of training in elite French sport, and shows that the concept of doping that is framed in simple moral terms by doctors and journalists is far from simple. Instead it results from a decades-long social and political process that is filled with contradictions and has produced a paradoxical world that athletes, trainers and doctors must negotiate.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: When the Extraordinary Is Normal, Deviance Is Good  2. Sports Medicine and Creating the Definition of Doping  3. The Structural Ambivalence of Sports Medicine  4. Rationalism, Training and Medicine in Cycling, 1990-2000  5. Training Models and Pharmacology in Athletics, 1960-2000  6. Pharmacological Careers in Wrestling and Weightlifting, 1980s  7. Bodybuilding and The Freedom to Choose  8. New Anti-Doping Policies: New Careers in Cycling, 2003-2010  9. Conclusion