Sports Medicine, Performance Enhancement and Doping by Ivan W... - 9781032915623

Sports Medicine, Performance Enhancement and DopingA Critical History\nAuthor(s): Ivan Waddington, Christophe Brissonneau\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032915623, 978-1032915623\nSynopsis\nTracing the history of sports medicine from the ancient world through to the present day, this book shines new light on the embedded relationship between physicians, performance enhancement and doping in elite sport.\n\nCombining historical and sociological analysis, the book shows how sports medicine, as it developed in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, became increasingly disengaged from its origins in preventive medicine to become closely linked with elite level competitive sport. The book demonstrates how this link between sports medicine and elite competitive sport drew sports physicians into the search for enhanced performance so that by the second half of the twentieth century performance enhancement had be.