Drug abuse in sport

Doping has become one of the most important and high-profile issues in contemporary sport.

In a provocative analysis of sport ethics and human values, Genetically Modified Athletes imagines the brave new world of sport.

In a provocative analysis of sport ethics and human values, Genetically Modified Athletes imagines the brave new world of sport.

This book summarizes the latest meeting of the world's leading researchers in sports nutrition, held at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.

This book summarizes the latest meeting of the world's leading researchers in sports nutrition, held at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Will the genetic design of athletes destroy sport .

Will the genetic design of athletes destroy sport .

This book offers a new history of drug use in sport.

This book offers a new history of drug use in sport.

The work of dope testers is constantly being obstructed by the development of ever harder-to-trace new forms of banned substances.

The work of dope testers is constantly being obstructed by the development of ever harder-to-trace new forms of banned substances.

Why do many athletes risk their careers by taking performance-enhancing drugs?

Why do many athletes risk their careers by taking performance-enhancing drugs?

With every positive drugs test the credibility and veracity of modern elite sport is diminished.

With every positive drugs test the credibility and veracity of modern elite sport is diminished.

Passion and Addiction in Sports and Exercise is about the bright and dark aspects of sports and exercise behavior and revolves around two closely related yet distinct concepts.

Passion and Addiction in Sports and Exercise is about the bright and dark aspects of sports and exercise behavior and revolves around two closely related yet distinct concepts.

Since its first published edition more than 30 years ago, the BASES (British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences) Physiological Testing Guidelines have represented the leading knowledge base of current testing methodology for sport and exercise scientists.

Since its first published edition more than 30 years ago, the BASES (British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences) Physiological Testing Guidelines have represented the leading knowledge base of current testing methodology for sport and exercise scientists.

Drugs in Sport is the most comprehensive and accurate text on the emotive, complex and critical subject of performance enhancement and doping within sport.

Drugs in Sport is the most comprehensive and accurate text on the emotive, complex and critical subject of performance enhancement and doping within sport.

This book is the first of its kind to discuss doping within Non-Olympic Sports.

This book is the first of its kind to discuss doping within Non-Olympic Sports.

Examining the legitimacy of the World Anti-Doping Agency, this book offers a critical analysis of the anti-doping system and the social and behavioural processes that shape policy, asking why the current system is failing.

Examining the legitimacy of the World Anti-Doping Agency, this book offers a critical analysis of the anti-doping system and the social and behavioural processes that shape policy, asking why the current system is failing.

This book is about gym culture, the pursuit of fit, muscular bodies and the use of drugs as a means to get there.

This book is about gym culture, the pursuit of fit, muscular bodies and the use of drugs as a means to get there.

Exercise and Sport Pharmacology is an essential book for teaching upper-level undergraduates or entry-level graduate students about how drugs can affect exercise and how exercise can affect the action of drugs.

Exercise and Sport Pharmacology is an essential book for teaching upper-level undergraduates or entry-level graduate students about how drugs can affect exercise and how exercise can affect the action of drugs.

Sport Integrity examines sports integrity from a range of disciplinary perspectives that will help to enhance the reader's understanding of this burgeoning problematic in sports management.

Sport Integrity examines sports integrity from a range of disciplinary perspectives that will help to enhance the reader's understanding of this burgeoning problematic in sports management.

The global health and fitness industry is worth an estimated $4 trillion.

The global health and fitness industry is worth an estimated $4 trillion.

Athlete welfare should be of central importance in all sport.

Athlete welfare should be of central importance in all sport.

Sports fans or not, readers will be fascinated by this revealing examination of the pressures leading to the widespread use of steroids in sport and the negative, unintended consequences of their ban.

WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDOn a fateful night in 2009, Tyler Hamilton and Daniel Coyle met for dinner in Boulder, Colorado.

'A captivating and detailed account .

'A captivating and detailed account .

'After all this time Frankie Dettori still ranks amongst the all-time greats of the sport' LESTER PIGGOTT'An autobiography as gripping as any Dick Francis thriller' YORKSHIRE POST'Endearingly honest.

***Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 2020 - the inside story of the Russian doping programme by the man behind it all***One of the Financial Times's 'Fifty people who shaped the decade' 'The biggest sports scandal the world has ever seen'In 2015, Russia's Anti-Doping Centre was suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) following revelations of an elaborate state-sponsored doping programme at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

On 26th July 2015, Chris Froome entered the record books.

Why are fiberglass vaulting poles and hinged skates accepted in sport - while performance-enhancing drugs are forbidden?

Why are fiberglass vaulting poles and hinged skates accepted in sport - while performance-enhancing drugs are forbidden?

Placebo effects have been recognised by medicine and by science, yet only recently has systematic research begun to fully understand what they are and how they work.