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Dope A History of Performance Enhancement in Sports from the Nineteenth Century to Today
Daniel M. Rosen
ISBN: 0-313-34520-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-34520-3
264 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 6/30/2008
List Price: $44.95 (UK Sterling Price: £31.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • "He corrects inaccurate stories about doping deaths in cycling and offers very current detailed developments in the Floyd Landis case. He explains difficult and changing drug detection methods and results...Recommended. Larger university coaching and sports medicine collections supporting lower- and upper-level undergraduates; general readers."
    —CHOICE     2/1/2009
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.



 Title Features:
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.
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
About the Author: Daniel M. Rosen is a graduate of the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Since 1982, he has worked as a photojournalist, technical writer, multimedia developer, and instructional designer. In his spare time, Rosen publishes Rant Your Head Off, (http://rant-your-head-off.com), a blog which covers a number of issues, including various sports doping scandals. He is an avid cyclist.
PDF Catalogs:
Pop Culture Spring 2008.pdf
Praeger Public Library Spring 2008.pdf
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