Doping for Profit: the Business of Enhanced Sport
Six books on how investor-backed sports ventures monetize controversy, sidestep regulators, and rewrite the ethics of performance enhancement.
Optimized for books about Understand the commercial, ethical, and public-health stakes of a privately funded sporting event that permits performance-enhancing drugs..
The FormulaJoshua Robinson, Jonathan CleggThe Formula examines how commercialization and tech-driven ownership reshaped elite sports into entertainment products,...Shelf signal: Auto Racing
Sports, Media, and SocietyKevin HullSports, Media, and Society explains how media framing and gatekeeping shape public perception of controversial sporting...Shelf signal: How Media Works
Fair PlayRobert L. Simon, Cesar R. TorresFair Play provides an ethical framework for evaluating rule changes and the moral arguments around permitting...Shelf signal: Sports & Recreation
DopesickBeth MacyDopesick illustrates how pharmaceutical and drug market incentives can create public-health crises relevant to...Shelf signal: Disease & Public Health
The Meat RacketChristopher LeonardThe Meat Racket offers an investigative model of how concentrated commercial systems and weak oversight produce harms,...Shelf signal: The Food Business
Winners Take AllAnand GiridharadasWinners Take All analyzes how wealthy backers use philanthropic and market gestures to reshape public institutions,...Shelf signal: Social Class