Tag: doping

Anna Qvarfordt is a senior lecturer in Sports Science at the University of Gävle. She has a PhD in Sport Science and in her dissertation she analyses the legitimacy of global anti-doping policy from the perspective of elite athletes. Anna is also involved in research on fitness doping where young people's perceptions of body image, health, exercise and doping means are studied.

The Department of Sport and Social Sciences has a vacant PhD candidate position in the field of sport philosophy. There is the possibility of applying to one out of two (or to both) predefined PhD projects. One project will be focusing on the ethics of medicalization and performance-enhancing means in sport, and the other on eco-philosophical and environmental issues in sport.

Performance Enhancement & Health (PEH) is an international, peer-reviewed journal that critically explores the health implications of pharmacological, genetic, psychological and other technological enhancements of the human being. Editor’s pick from the current issue: INSIDE A STEROID ‘BREWING’ AND SUPPLY OPERATION IN SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND: AN ‘ETHNOGRAPHIC NARRATIVE CASE STUDY’ by Luke A. Turnock.

Performance enhancement may be linked to productivity, identity, social capital or pleasure, while health is envisaged broadly as absence of disease, optimal functioning, and well-being. Performance Enhancement & Health (PEH) is an international, peer-reviewed journal that critically explores the health implications of pharmacological, genetic, psychological and other technological enhancements of the human being.

Performance enhancement may be linked to productivity, identity, social capital or pleasure, while health is envisaged broadly as absence of disease, optimal functioning, and well-being. Performance Enhancement & Health (PEH) is an international, peer-reviewed journal that critically explores the health implications of pharmacological, genetic, psychological and other technological enhancements of the human being.

Jörg Krieger is a German sport historian, working as Assistant Professor for Sport and Social Science at Aarhus University in Denmark. In his research, he explores the policies and attitudes of sport organizations and their leaders in their attempts to combat challenging issues such as doping and corruption. Jörg’s current research focus is on the socio-political history of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

Medieforskarna Ulrik Wagner (Syddansk Universitet) och Elsa Kristiansen (Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge) har gått igenom hundratals artiklar och jämfört den svenska och norska bevakningen av fallet. Studien visar att norska medier undvek att kalla det som hänt för en dopingskandal, och i flera artiklar beskrevs Therese Johaug som ett oskyldigt offer. I Sverige var bilden annorlunda.

Den aktuelle forskningen vil ha et spesielt fokus på hva som former holdninger og atferd til ulike antatt prestasjonsfremmende midler som kosttilskudd, smertestillende medikamenter og forbudte dopingmidler. Det overordnede målet er å utvikle forskningsbasert kunnskap om hva som kan skape gode psykososiale miljøer og en helsefremmende prestasjonskultur i den organiserte ungdomsidretten.

There is limited knowledge about the implications of the extensive anti-doping control system for athletes, and about how athletes perceive the system; little is known about possible consequences of these implications and perceptions for the legitimacy of the system. The overall aim of this thesis is to analyse the legitimacy of global anti-doping policy and practice from the perspectives of international elite athletes.

From ancient Egypt, to ancient Greece and Rome, physicians were trying to understand the human body and related their findings to sports and exercise. Ancient physicians from Greece and later from Arabia already understood that sports and exercise can be a treatment for many ailments.