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Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

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In this free course, doping (performance enhancing drugs, or PEDs) is used as an example of how contemporary issues in sport might be studied. Doping is used to illustrate how you can think about the debates involved in an issue and this will help you develop appropriate skills to discuss other contemporary issues in sport.This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course E315 Contemporary sport and exercise issues.

Syllabus

  • 1 Doping in the media
  • 2 What does history tell us?
  • 3 What is the current focus of doping research?
  • 4 What do you think about doping?
  • 5 Ways of framing debates about doping
  • 6 Framing debates about gene doping
  • 7 What happens to debates with little framing?
  • 8 Framing in action a doping example
  • 9 Assessing the question being asked
  • 10 Does comparison change perspectives?
  • 11 Working towards a conclusion

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