Steroids : a new look at performance-enhancing drugs /
Beamish, Rob,
Steroids : a new look at performance-enhancing drugs / [print] Rob Beamish. - Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, (c)2011. - xviii, 211 pages ; 25 cm.
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.
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.
9780313380242
2011010791
101572942 DNLM
Anabolic steroids.
Doping in sports.
Olympics--Political aspects.
Olympics--Social aspects.
RC1230.B366.S747 2011 RC1230
Steroids : a new look at performance-enhancing drugs / [print] Rob Beamish. - Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, (c)2011. - xviii, 211 pages ; 25 cm.
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.
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.
9780313380242
2011010791
101572942 DNLM
Anabolic steroids.
Doping in sports.
Olympics--Political aspects.
Olympics--Social aspects.
RC1230.B366.S747 2011 RC1230