German sports, doping, and politics : a history of performance enhancement

Content: Introduction - Basics and Problem Definition  The Role of Doping in the Relationship between Politics, Sporting Policies, and Sports   Methodological Basics: Sources and Documents  State of the Art  Scientific Debate on Doping and Public Moralization  Problems of Empirical Evaluation and Proving Doping    I. From Common Practice to Prohibition - the Beginnings of Doping and Anti-Doping in German Sport of the 1950s and 1960s  Introduction  Sport in the Federal Republic of Germany after the Second World War  Structures and Self-Perceptions of the German Federal Sports Organizations  Sports Policy  Physical Health as a Common Objective - a Legitimation for State Sponsoring  Competitive Sports and National Representation: The Delayed Start - Germany in the Context of International Sports Development  The \"Medicalization\" of Society and Sport and other Doping and Anti-Doping Issues  Spread and Development of Anti-Doping in the 1950s and 1960s  Self-Concept and Functions of German Sports Medicine  Anti-Doping Policies in the 1950s and 1960s  Doping Rules of Some Sports Federations  The Role of State and Government in Anti-Doping Policies  Doping During the 1950s and 1960s - Intermediate Results    II. Cold War and the Climax of Doping in Germany - From the Munich Olympics of 1972 via Montreal 1976 to the Introduction of Out-of-Competition Controls in the 1980s  Introduction  The 1972 Olympic Games of Munich and Their Importance for the Development of Doping and Anti-Doping in Germany  Anti-doping Politics of the IOC in the 1970s  Sport Politics, Doping and Anti-Doping in West Germany  Interim Results  Doping and Anti-Doping up to the Olympic Games of Montreal in 1976  Problems in Preventing Anabolic Steroids in Sport  Anabolic Steroids, their Prevalence in Top Level Sport and Doping Controls  The Doping Games of Montreal 1976: \"Kolbe Injection\" and \"Air Clyster Scandal\" - and their Political Consequences  Political Contextualization of Doping and Anti-Doping in the 1970s and 1980s  German Secret Services on Doping  Doping and West German Sports Medicine  Adaptation by West German Sport Organizations  Consequences of State and Sport Policies - the \"Grundsatzerklarung fur den Spitzensport\" of 1977  Doping Enhancement in West German Sport  Doping and Anti-Doping Policies between 1977 and 1989  The Case of Birgit Dressel  Preventive Controls  Anti-Doping: Some Facts and Problems  A Doubtful Research Project: The Study of Rejuvenation/ Regeneration by Means of Testosterone  Introduction of Out-of-Competition Controls  Interim Results - Changes to Doping and Anti-Doping Policies during the 1970s and 1980s    III. Doping and Anti-Doping in the Process of German Reunification  State and Sport, Doping and Anti-Doping in West Germany before 1990  Revelations of Doping by the German Media after Unification  Responses from Sport and Politics  The Parliament Veto: Budget Cut in 1991/92  European and International Perspectives  The Case of Dieter Baumann - a Blow in the Fight against Doping  Interim Results: Reunification, Rehabilitation and New Beginnings  International Strategies of Anti-Doping - Germany on the Path to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)  The Establishment of an International Political Anti-Doping Regime  From Lausanne to the WADA  WADA as the New Center of the International Fight against Doping  Effects of the International Anti-Doping Movement on German Anti-Doping Policies: From the Anti-Doping Commission of the German Sport Federation (DSB) to the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA)  German Anti-Doping Crisis of 2007  The Debate on an Anti-Doping Law  Interim Results: Doping in the Context of Sport, State and Society    Conclusion  The German Story of Doping - a Relevant Element of the Overall Sports Process  Explanations for the Doping and Anti-Doping Process  Relevance of the Cold War  Changes of the Relationship between State and Sport    Bibliography  Chronology  List of abbreviations  Index  About the Authors