John Hoberman

He is the author of numerous books and articles on sports, specifically on their cultural impact, their relationship with race, and the issue of doping.

He is a European cultural and intellectual historian, who has interests in Sportwissenschaft [De] and the history of racial ideas.

He has published nearly one hundred sports articles and books in American newspapers and magazines and in Der Spiegel.

His book Testosterone Dreams (2005) is a history of the use of hormone treatments for lifestyle and performance enhancement during the last century, in the context of an analysis of modern society's ever-increasing use of chemical enhancements in general and its effect on human self-image.

It focuses in particular on the early commercial marketing of the hormone testosterone, which is considered representative of all the performance-enhancing drugs that followed it.