Anti-Doping Rising
The use of substances to enhance performance in sport- what we call “doping” today- is as old as sport itself. Today’s guests explore the origins of the anti-doping movement to understand how we got here.
About Our Guests
Dr. Paul Dimeo is a professor at the School of Sport at the University of Stirling in Stirling, Scotland. Dr. Dimeo was a Fulbright Commission Scholar at the University of Texas, Austin. His major research interest is doping in sport and the development of anti-doping policies. He is the author of numerous scholarly publications related to sports doping, including: A History of Drug Use in Sport, 1876-1976: Beyond Good and Evil, and Why Lance Armstrong? Historical Context and Key Turning Points in the “Cleaning Up” of Professional Cycling. His latest book is about the subject covered in this series: The Anti-Doping Crisis in Sport: Causes, Consequences, Solutions.
Dr. John Gleaves is an Associate Professor at California State University, Fullerton. His interest has been in studying sports doping and the use of performance enhancing drugs in sports. He has written numerous articles and two books, The Rise and Fall of Olympic Amateurism and A Global History of Doping In Sports, on sports doping. He is currently producing a series of articles devoted to ethics and policy reforms for anti-doping efforts in sports.
Bengt Kayser MD, PhD is a professor at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine and Director of the Institute of Sports Sciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He attained his doctorate in exercise physiology at the Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. He has published over 250 articles in peer reviewed journals, and written more than twenty chapters in various scholarly books. He is the author of Ethical Aspects of Doping and Anti-Doping: In Search of an Alternative Policy.
Ian Ritchie is Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. His research interests include performance-enhancing drug use in sport, the history of anti-doping rules and policies, Canadian anti-doping policy, gender and sex determination policies, the history of the Olympic Games, and social theory as it applies to sport and physical culture. He is the author of numerous publications on the history of sport, sports doping, and the Olympic Games. He is the co-author of the book, Fastest, Highest, Strongest: A Critique of High-Performance Sport.