Learner Reviews & Feedback for Doping : Sports, Organizations and Sciences by University of Lausanne
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About the Course
The objective of this course is to encourage a critical understanding of doping. To achieve this goal, this course will rely on a multidisciplinary approach that allow you to see how different disciplines get into a single object, in different perspectives and in often complementary ways. This approach will also allow us to appreciate the complexity of a subject like doping.
Doping in sports is a complex practice whose definition and identification is the result of socially and historically constructed norms.
This course offers to shed light on the processes that led to the use and prohibition of doping substances. Performance enhancement or physical transformation are two aspects of doping which are seen as problematic, yet even as we speak companies are making fortunes selling body improvement and other forms of “human enhancement” to us. These apparent contradictions will be analysed to show that beyond sanitary questions, doping raises many social, scientific and legal issues.
In efforts to control doping, governments and sports authorities have put into place institutions responsible for defining what falls into the category of doping, but also what prevention, repressions and research methods to put into effect. This course will also explore biological control measures such as the biological passport, key legal dimensions, organisations that produce performance, as well as the sociological dimensions of doping.
Besides the Professors of University of Lausanne, the best experts of doping are involved in this course: experts from an Anti-doping Laboratory (LAD- Lausanne-Switzerland), from the CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport), from the UEFA (soccer), and from the WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency).
Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Q3eR_g7rU
Main Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course the participants will be able to :
1. Identify the “cultural” dimension of doping, that is as a historical practice linked to the transformation of social norms,
2. Go from a binary way of thinking - for or against doping - to an understanding of the complexity of this phenomenon which is biological, psychological and sociological, all at the same time,
3. Recognize the institutions, the actors and the practices of the fight against doping,
4. Explain how the social and organisational context influences individuals decisions and how this influence can be reduced by effective prevention measures,
5. Identify how the fight against doping is led and how testing is carried out....
Top reviews
IG
Nov 2, 2017
Doping explained from a different view point, through its history and the `why`, informing about behaviour. I enjoyed it and learnt a lot. Thank you very much.
RY
Jun 8, 2020
A very interesting course, made engaging by interactions with authorities on the subject. Very well structured.Enjoyed it very much
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By christian a
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Jan 16, 2021
J'ai trouvé le contenu très enrichissant. On y retrouve suffisamment d'informations pour en savoir plus sur l'histoire du doping et les progrès enregistrés dans la lutte et la prévention du dopage.
By Floriano Z
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Sep 27, 2016
Very Interesting! I would extend the part on the biological passport and give more details on how the adaptive model algorithm works.
By Guillem P
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Jul 29, 2018
The teacher has a rather strong french accent. Sometimes I need to look at the script because of this.
By Ally H M
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Apr 30, 2021
Give detailed insight on athletic doping issues.
By Chikih
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May 11, 2020
Good To Know About doping
By María d P M R
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Jun 22, 2020
Muy buen curso! completo
By Emil
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Oct 27, 2018
This course is an attempt to bring back peoples trust to the corrupt international institutions.