A history of drug use in sport 1876-1976
Subtitle: beyond good and evil
By: Paul Dimeo.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415357715; 9780415357722
Subjects: Doping in sports -- History; Athletes -- Drug use -- History
Table of contents: title: Sport, drugs and society; title: Doping and the rise of modern sport, 1876-1918; title: The science gets serious, 1920-1945; title: Amphetamines and post war sport, 1945-1976; title: The steroids epidemic, 1945-1976; title: Dealing with the scandal : anti-doping and the new ethics of sport, 1945-1965; title: Science, morality and policy : the modernisation of anti-doping, 1965-1976; title: Doping, anti-doping and the changing values of sport epilogue.