About this 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.

At the end of the course the participants will be able to:

• Identify the “cultural” dimension of doping, that is as a historical practice linked to the transformation of social norms
• 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
• Recognize the institutions, the actors and the practices of the fight against doping
• Explain how the social and organisational context influences individuals decisions and how this influence can be reduced by effective prevention measures
• Identify how the fight against doping is led and how testing is carried out