The book examines the urgent challenges facing anti-doping regimes in global sports, particularly focusing on the World Anti-Doping Agency's shortcomings. It provides a critical analysis of the recent history of anti-doping efforts and suggests that the system is at risk of collapse, both in terms of policy effectiveness and ideological support. Through this exploration, it raises important questions about the future of fairness and integrity in competitive sports.
Challenging the prevailing anti-doping policies, Verner Møller presents a thought-provoking examination of the conflict between the desire for purity in sports and the competitive drive to win. By combining empirical case studies with contemporary theory, the author delves into the moral and societal implications of doping in athletics. Written in an engaging manner, this work serves as a crucial resource for scholars and students interested in the ethics, sociology, and politics surrounding sports.
The Routledge Handbook of Drugs and Sport is simply the most comprehensive and authoritative survey of social scientific research on this hugely important issue ever to be published. It presents an overview of key topics, problems, ideas, concepts and cases across seven thematic sections, including the history of doping in sport, philosophical approaches to understanding doping, the development of anti-doping policy, and WADA and national anti-doping organisations. With contributions from many of the world's leading researchers into drugs and sport, this is the perfect reference for any advanced student, researcher, policy maker, coach or administrator.
Moller sheds light on the inner aspects of psychosis and psychosis risk, and its core experiential phenomena as a method of understanding the individual early psychosis development.
The book explores the inherent competitive nature of humans, challenging the notion that progress in equality and fairness represents a departure from our instinctual drives. Using elite sports as a lens, it argues that the push for equity and equal access is rooted in the same competitive impulses that have always existed. As basic survival needs are met in developed societies, individuals continue to vie for status and recognition in various domains, demonstrating that competition remains a fundamental aspect of human behavior.