An Introduction to Drugs in Sport: Addicted to Winning?

by Andy Smith, Ivan Waddington, Andrew Smith

Book Overview

Why do many athletes risk their careers by taking performance-enhancing drugs? Do the highly competitive pressures of elite sports teach athletes to win at any cost?

An Introduction to Drugs in Sport provides a detailed and systematic examination of drug use in sport and attempts to explain why athletes have, over the last four decades, increasingly used performance-enhancing drugs. It offers a critical overview of the major theories of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00DHLCDX6
• ISBN13: 9780415431255
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"