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Dope A History of Performance Enhancement in Sports from the Nineteenth Century to Today

Daniel M. Rosen

Book Code: C34520

ISBN: 0-313-34520-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-34520-3

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Praeger Publishers

Publication: 6/30/2008

List Price: $44.95 (UK Sterling Price: £25.95)

Availability: Not yet published. (Estimated publication date, 6/30/2008)

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Description: Since the dawn of athletic competition during the original Olympic Games in Ancient Greece, athletes, as well as their coaches and trainers, have been finding innovative ways to gain an edge on their competition. Some of those performance-enhancement methods have been within the accepted rules while other methods skirt the gray area between being within the rules and not, while still other methods break the established rules. In modern times, doping - the use of performance-enhancing drugs - has been one method athletes and their trainers have used to beat their competition. The history of sports doping during the modern era can be traced through the events and scandals of the times in which the athletes lived. From the use of amphetamines and other stimulants in the early 20th century, to the use of testosterone and steroids by both the USSR and the United States during Cold War-era Olympics games, to blood doping and EPO, to designer drugs, the history of doping in sports closely follows the medical and technological advances of our times. In the early 21st century, the possibility of genetically engineered athletes looms. The story of doping in sports over the last century offers clues to where the battle over performance enhancement will be fought in the years to come. This book includes a timeline of major milestones/events in the history of doping from the mid-1800s onward. It also shows that a number of popularly circulated stories about doping in sports don't hold up under close examination. For example, in 1886, an English cyclist was said to have died following the Bordeaux to Paris Derny race. However, the Bordeaux to Paris race didn't exist in 1886. It was first run in 1891. Second, the cyclist who supposedly died in 1886 actually died in 1896-from typhoid fever, rather than doping-related causes.
To round this landmark study, Dope features an afterword that addresses the final conclusion of the Floyd Landis doping case and brings the content up to the minute on other current doping scandals.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Chapter 1 -- The Early History of Performance Enhancement Drugs
Chapter 2 -- The Beginnings of Modern Doping
Chapter 3 -- The Rise of East German Athletics And Other Tales of Doping
Chapter 4 -- Blood Doping, EPO and Human Growth Hormone
Chapter 5 -- An Explosion of Doping Cases and the Rise of Custom Tailored Drugs
Chapter 6 -- Is Everyone Doping?
Chapter 7 Future Perfect: Genetically Modified Athletes?
Afterword
Chapter Notes
Timeline
Index

LC Card Number: 2008009949

LCC Class: RC1230

Dewey Class: 362

PDF Catalogs:
Pop Culture Spring 2008.pdf	Praeger Public Library Spring 2008.pdf


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