Doping and Anti-Doping Policy in Sport: Ethical, Legal and Social Perspectives

The issue of doping has been the widest discussed problem in the whole of sports ethics and one of the most prominent issues across sports studies, the sports sciences and their constituent disciplines. This book adds uniquely to that catalogue of discourses by focusing on extant anti-doping policy and doping practices from a range of multi-disciplinary perspectives (specifically ethical, legal, and social scientific).With contributions from a world-class team of scholars and legal practitioners from the UK, Europe and North America, the book explores key contemporary issues such as:International doping policyThe whereabouts systemThe criminalisation of dopingPrivacy rights, gene doping and ethicsImperfection in doping test proceduresSteroid use in the general populationDoping and Anti Doping Policy in Sport offers an important critique of contemporary anti-doping policy and should be essential reading for any advanced student, researcher or policy maker with an interest in this vital issue.