Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ivan waddington

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  • SPORTS MEDICINE, PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT AND DOPING
    IVAN WADDINGTON / 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 increasi...

    $1,240.00

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF DRUGS AND SPORT
    VERNER MØLLER, IVAN WADDINGTON, JOHN HOBERMAN
    Doping has become one of the most important and high-profile issues in contemporary sport. Shocking cases such as that of Lance Armstrong and the US Postal cycling team have exposed the complicated relationships between athletes, teams, physicians, sports governing bodies, drugs providers, and judicial systems, all locked in a constant struggle for competitive advantage. The Ro...

    $1,460.00

  • MATTERS OF SPORT
    DOMINIC MALCOLM AND IVAN WADDINGTON
    Matters of Sport is a tribute to Eric Dunning, the leading sports sociologist in the English-speaking world. This book addresses Dunning's contributions to the sociological and historical study of sport, covering key topics such as hooliganism, celebrity and gender relations. A broad range of leading academics from Europe and North America reflect on the ways in which Dunning's...

    $1,260.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO DRUGS IN SPORT
    IVAN WADDINGTON
    Why do many athletes risk their careers by taking performance-enhancing drugs? Do the highly competitive pressures of elite sports teach athletes to win at any cost? An Introduction to Drugs in Sport provides a detailed and systematic examination of drug use in sport and attempts to explain why athletes have, over the last four decades, increasingly used performance-enhancing d...

    $1,420.00