Sports Medicine, Performance Enhancement and Doping: A Critical History

by Ivan Waddington and Christophe Brissonneau

Tracing 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.

Combining 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032915625
• ISBN13: 9781032915623
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 220 Pages