Testing for Athlete Citizenship - Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport

Informationen zum Autor  KATHRYN E. HENNE is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Melbourne.  Klappentext Incidents of doping in sports are common in news headlines, despite regulatory efforts. How did doping become a crisis? Who gets punished for breaking the rules of fair play? Kathryn E. Henne, a former competitive athlete and an expert in the law and science of anti-doping regulations, examines the development of rules aimed at controlling performance enhancement in international sports. Zusammenfassung Incidents of doping in sports are common in news headlines! despite regulatory efforts. How did doping become a crisis? Who gets punished for breaking the rules of fair play? Kathryn E. Henne! a former competitive athlete and an expert in the law and science of anti-doping regulations! examines the development of rules aimed at controlling performance enhancement in international sports. Inhaltsverzeichnis  PrefaceList of Abbreviations1   Introduction2   Diagnosing Doping: The Institutionalization of the Moral Crusade3   Codifying the Code: The Legalization of Anti-Doping Regulation4   Impossible Purities: The Gendered Science of Fair Play5   A Pure Playing Field Nation: The Curious Case of New Zealand6   ConclusionAppendix   Research Methods: On Secrets and Multi-Sited StorytellingNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Kathryn E Henne, Kathryn E. Henne
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2015
• EAN: 9780813565903
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-6590-3
• No. of pages: 246
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Critical Issues in Sport and S; Critical Issues in Sport and S; Critical Issues in Sport and Society
• Subject: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history