Steroids : a new look at performance-enhancing drugs / Rob Beamish. [print]

By:

Beamish, Rob [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780313380242

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LOC classification:

RC1230.B366.S747 2011
RC1230

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Contents:

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.

Subject: 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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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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