Steroids, a new look at performance-enhancing drugs, Rob Beamish
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Steroids, a new look at performance-enhancing drugs, Rob Beamish
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-200) and index
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Steroids
Nature of contents
bibliography
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707210948
Responsibility statement
Rob Beamish
Sub title
a new look at performance-enhancing drugs
Summary
From Baron Pierre de Coubertin's original objectives in establishing the modern Olympic Games to the increasingly widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs during the Cold War to the 1998 drug scandal during the Tour de France and beyond, Steroids: A New Look at Performance-Enhancing Drugs puts the social construction of steroids as a banned substance under the microscope and interprets the implications of that particular conception of steroid use in sport
Table of contents
Coubertin's Olympic project -- Sports, spectacles, and the nation-state : the Nazi Olympics -- The Olympic Games' fundamental principle : the spirit of Olympism -- The social construction of steroids in sports -- Interests of the nation-state, sports, and steroids -- Steroids in sports : the social construction of a new moral panic -- Conclusion : Sports, modernity, and steroids
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