The Anti-Doping Crisis in Sport: Causes, Consequences, Solutions

The sense of crisis that pervades global sport suggests that the war on doping is still very far from being won. In this critical and provocative study of anti-doping regimes in global sport, Paul Dimeo and Verner M ller argue that the current system is at a critical historical juncture.

Reviewing the recent history of anti-doping, this book highlights serious problems in the approach developed and implemented by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), including continued failure to accept responsibility for the ineffectiveness of the testing system, the growing number of dubious convictions, and damaging human-rights issues. Without a total rethink of how we deal with this critical issue in world sport, this book warns that we could be facing the collapse of anti-doping, both as a policy and as an ideology.

The Anti-Doping Crisis in Sport: Causes, Consequences, Solutions is important reading for all students and scholars of sport studies, as well as researchers, coaches, doctors and policymakers interested in the politics and ethics of drug use in sport. It examines the reasons for the crisis, the consequences of policy strategies, and it explores potential solutions.

Author: Paul Dimeo,Verner Møller
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 04/20/2018
Pages: 174
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781138681675

About the Author

Paul Dimeo is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport at Stirling University, UK.

Verner Møller is Professor in the Department of Public Health at Aarhus University, Denmark.