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  • Drug Games

    The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping, 1960–2008

    Series series Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports
    On August 26, 1960, twenty-three-year-old Danish cyclist Knud Jensen, competing in that year's Rome Olympic Games, suddenly fell from his bike and fractured his skull. His death hours later led to rumors that performance-enhancing drugs were in his system. Though certainly not the first instance of doping in the Olympic Games, Jensen's death serves as the starting point for Thomas M. Hunt's ... Leer más

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  • Sport and Political Ideology

    de John Hoberman ...
    Across the modern political spectrum, left-wing and right-wing political theorists have invested sport with ideological significance. That significance, however, varies distinctively and characteristically with the ideology—a phenomenon John Hoberman terms "ideological differentiation." Taking this phenomenon as its point of departure, this provocative work interprets the major sport ideologies of ... Leer más

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  • Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship

    To many, an association between Jews and sports seems almost oxymoronic--yet Jews have been prominent in boxing, basketball, and fencing, and some would argue that hurler Sandy Koufax is America's greatest athlete ever. In Jews, Sports, and the Rites of Citizenship, Jack Kugelmass shows that sports--significant in constructing nations and in determining their degree of exclusivity--also figures ... Leer más

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  • Routledge Handbook of Drugs and Sport

    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    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 Routledge Handbook of ... Leer más

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  • Darwin's Athletes

    How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race

    de John Hoberman ...
    DARWIN'S ATHLETES focuses on society's fixation with black athletic achievement. Hoberman argues that this obsession has come to play a troubling role in African American life and our country's race relations. Rich, flamboyant superstars lend credence to age-old prejudices, recycled "scientific" theories denigrating black intelligence, and stereotypes of black violence. This portrayal of black ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Dopers in Uniform

    The Hidden World of Police on Steroids

    de John Hoberman ...
    Series series Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports
    The recorded use of deadly force against unarmed suspects and sustained protest from the Black Lives Matter movement, among others, have ignited a national debate about excessive violence in American policing. Missing from the debate, however, is any discussion of a factor that is almost certainly contributing to the violence—the use of anabolic steroids by police officers. Mounting evidence from ... Leer más

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  • Black and Blue

    The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism

    de John Hoberman ...
    Black & Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients. The standard studies of medical racism examine past medical abuses of black people and do not address the racially motivated thinking and behaviors of physicians practicing medicine today.Black & Blue penetrates the ... Leer más

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  • Authentically Black

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