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.



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Anabolic steroids.
Doping in sports.
Olympics--Political aspects.
Olympics--Social aspects.

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