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Towards a Social Science of Drugs in Sport

The debate around the role of drugs in sport is vibrant. There is a wealth of evidence from the hard end of science, telling us how drugs work, how drug testing works, and how many athletes have fallen foul of the system. The evidence from social science is still building momentum. For example, what makes an athlete use a performance enhancing substance? To win simply fails to explain the drug use behaviour we see among athletes.

This book provides a foundation for anyone trying to understand the drugs in sport problem beyond the hard science by looking at the people factor from different perspectives. After building a case for the social science of drugs in sport, it is examined from the ethical, sociological, economic, legal and psychological points of view. The book concludes with a definitive statement about what researchers, policy makers, sports administrators, athletes and fans can do to achieve a social science of drugs in sport that puts people firmly in the centre of the debate.

This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

Jason Mazanov is a Senior Lecturer at the UNSW Canberra Campus. Dr Mazanov started his career as a Health Psychologist before moving into the social science of drugs in sport. This move has seen Dr Mazanov develop expertise as a sports policy and management researcher.

Towards a Social Science of Drugs in Sport

Edited by

Jason Mazanov

First published 2012

by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

First issued in paperback 2013

2012 Taylor & Francis

This book is a reproduction of Sport in Society, vol. 12, issue 3. The Publisher requests to those authors who may be citing this book to state, also, the bibliographical details of the special issue on which the book was based.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN: 978-0-415-85314-9

ISBN: 978-0-415-68586-3

Typeset in Times New Roman
by Taylor & Francis Books

Disclaimer

The publisher would like to make readers aware that the chapters in this book are referred to as articles as they had been in the special issue. The publisher accepts responsibility for any inconsistencies that may have arisen in the course of preparing this volume for print.

Contents

Jason Mazanov

Jason Mazanov and Vanessa McDermott

Jason Mazanov

Dennis Hemphill

James M. Connor

Keiran Sharpe

Anne Amos and Saul Fridman

Frances H. Quirk

James M. Hanson

Jason Mazanov

Jason Mazanov

Series Editor: Boria Majumdar

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TOWARDS A SOCIAL SCIENCE OF DRUGS IN SPORT

Sport in the Global Society Contemporary Perspectives

Series Editor: Boria Majumdar

The social, cultural (including media) and political study of sport is an expanding area of scholarship and related research. While this area has been well served by the Sport in the Global Society series, the surge in quality scholarship over the last few years has necessitated the creation of Sport in the Global Society: Contemporary Perspectives. The series will publish the work of leading scholars in fields as diverse as sociology, cultural studies, media studies, gender studies, cultural geography and history, political science and political economy. If the social and cultural study of sport is to receive the scholarly attention and readership it warrants, a cross-disciplinary series dedicated to taking sport beyond the narrow confines of physical education and sport science academic domains is necessary. Sport in the Global Society: Contemporary Perspectives will answer this need.

Titles in the Series

Australian Sport

Antipodean Waves of Change

Edited by Kristine Toohey and Tracy Taylor

Australia's Asian Sporting Context

1920s and 1930s

Edited by Sean Brawley and Nick Guoth

Critical Support for Sport

Bruce Kidd

Disability in the Global Sport Arena

A Sporting Chance

Edited by Jill M. Clair

Diversity and Division Race, Ethnicity and Sport in Australia

Christopher J. Hallinan

Documenting the Beijing Olympics

Edited by D. P. Martinez

Football in Brazil

Edited by Martin Curi

Football Supporters and the Commercialisation of Football

Comparative Responses across Europe

Edited by Peter Kennedy and David Kennedy

Football's Relationship with Art: The Beautiful Game?

John E. Hughson

Forty Years of Sport and Social Change, 1968-2008

To Remember is to Resist

Edited by Russell Field and Bruce Kidd

Global Perspectives on Football in Africa

Visualising the Game

Edited by Susann Baller, Giorgio Miescher and Raffaele Poli

Global Sport Business

Community Impacts of Commercial Sport

Edited by Hans Westerbeek

Governance, Citizenship and the New European Football Championships

The European Spectacle

Edited by Wolfram Manzenreiter and Georg Spitaler

Indigenous People, Race Relations and Australian Sport

Edited by Christopher J. Hallinan and Barry Judd

Perspectives on Sport and Music

Perfect Pitch

Edited by Anthony Bateman

Reviewing UK Football Cultures

Continuing with Gender Analyses

Edited by Jayne Caudwell

Soccer in the Middle East

Edited by Issam Khalidi and Alon Raab

South Africa and the Global Game

Football, Apartheid and Beyond

Edited by Peter Alegi and Chris Bolsmann

Sport Race, Ethnicity and Identity

Building Global Understanding

Edited by Daryl Adair

Sport and the Community

Edited by Allan Edwards and David Hassan

Sport, Culture and Identity in the State of Israel

Edited by Yair Galily and Amir Ben-Porat

Sport in Australian National Identity

Kicking Goals

Tony Ward

Sport in the City

Cultural Connections

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