Sport and Alcohol

Using philosophical arguments rooted in ethics and virtue theory, this book examines the alcohol-tolerant ethos that pervades contemporary sport, and the initiation of members of the sporting practice community into problematic drinking.

Carwyn Rh. Jones is Professor in Sports Ethics at the Cardiff School of Sport at Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK. He was formerly president of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport and a founding member of the British Philosophy of Sport Association. He is co-editor of Routledge's The Ethics of Sport Coaching and Cambridge Scholar's Philosophy of Sport. He has published widely on a broad range of ethical and sociological issues in sport

Introduction 1. Alcohol and its harms 2. Alcohol and sport 3. Sport and its alcohol ethos 4:. 'Role models' and setting a good example 5. Drinking too much and punishment 6. Alcohol abuse, misuse and disorder 7. Footballer and alcoholic: a life story 8. Conclusion