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

Paul Dimeo · Verner Møller

Apr 2018 · Routledge

About this ebook

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 Møller 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.

Ratings and reviews

great read, you don't need to be an expert on the issues to understand the points they make

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.