by Chris Cooper · OUP Oxford · tapa dura · ISBN 9780199581467
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«Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat» is Chris Cooper's popular science essay on the science of doping, published by OUP Oxford in hardback (320 pages, in English).
The book explains how performance-enhancing substances work, reviews the history of doping, and analyses why anti-doping controls have limitations. Cooper debunks myths about steroids, EPO and hormones, and raises the ethical dilemmas of allowing or banning these practices, including the possible genetic manipulation of future athletes.
The work deals with doping in sport and the ethics of its rules, a topic approached from biochemistry and social analysis.
