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...