Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-209) and index.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Sport and health; Sport, health and ideology; Sport, health and public policy: some policy issues and problems; Health-related issues in child sport: child abuse and sex abuse; Doctors' dilemmas: conflicts in the role of club medical staff in professional football; Sport and drugs; Doping in sport: problems of involvement and detachment; The emergence of doping as a problem in modern sport; Doping in sport: towards a sociological understanding.
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For the first time a sociological perspective is brought to bear on a topic which has received much previous attention, largely from a medical or physiological perspective. This is a valuable and unique addition to existing literature.