Doping and Anti-Doping Policy in Sport

The issue of doping has been the most widely discussed problem in sports ethics and is 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: - sports medicine - international doping policy - the whereabouts system - the criminalization of doping - privacy rights, gene doping and ethics - imperfection in doping test procedures - steroid use in the general population. Doping and Anti-Doping Policy in Sport offers an important critique of contemporary anti-doping policy and is essential reading for any advanced student, researcher or policy maker with an interest in this vital issue.

Mike McNamee is Professor of Applied Ethics in the Department of Philosophy, History and Law in Healthcare, Swansea University, and is also a member of the Clinical Ethics Committee at Cardiff and Vale National Health Service Trust, UK. He is Series Editor of Ethics and Sport and Editor of the journal Sport, Ethics and Philosophy. He is a former President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport and the Founding Chair of the British Philosophy of Sport Association. Verner Møller is Professor of Sports Science at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the coordinator of the International Network of Humanistic Doping Research (INHDR) and a leading expert on the cultural and philosophical aspects of doping.

Introduction 1. Ethico-Legal Aspects of Anti-doping Legislation 2. The Burden of Proof in Endogenous Substance Cases: A Masking Agent for Junk Science 3. Longitudinal Profiling, Sports Arbitration and the Woman Who had Nothing to Lose. Some Thoughts on Pechstein versus the International Skating Union 4. Caught between Mathematics and Ethics: Some Implications of Imperfect Doping test Procedures 5. On the Presumption of Guilt without Proof of Intentionality and other Consequences of Current Anti-doping Policy 6. Athletes in Handcuffs? The Criminalisation of Doping 7. Privacy Rights, Gene Doping Ethics 8. Testing Citizens Training Recreationally in Gyms 9. Steroids in the Court of Public Opinion: Roger Clemens versus The Mitchell Report 10. It's Not about the Blood! Operacion Puerto and the End of Modernity 11. 'A Prison of Measured Time'? A Sociologist looks at the WADA Whereabouts System 12. The Expulsion of Michael Rasmussen from the Tour de France 2007 - Or what Happened to the Level Playing Field? 13. Governance and the Whereabouts system 14. A Critique of the Contemporary Trend Towards Severe Anti-doping Sanctions: Changing Directions