Hot Topics: Drug Use in Sports: Social Aspects

"This is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the issue of drugs in sport, the ethics of sport, sociology of sport, sociology of the body, masculinity or public health"

"The Athlete's Dilemma provides a broad perspective on the health risks prevalent in sports and what can be done to reduce these risks in the future. Accessibly written yet carefully researched, this book will be of interest to athletes of all levels, sports fans, academics, and health professionals."
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Pain, injuries, drugs, and team doctors. Real men play hurt -- Teammates, coaches, fans, and other unhealthy influences -- RG3's painful stay in Washington -- The pitfalls of team-directed medical care -- Performance enhancing substances : the perilous search for the holy grail. Performance enhancing measures : the good, the bad, and the ugly -- Baseball's tarnished legacy -- Football's brazen lack of compliance -- Cycling, Olympic sports, and WADA -- The laissez-faire approach to doping in tennis -- The IOC, WADA, IAAF, and state-sponsored doping in Russia -- Regulating PEDs to promote athletes' health -- Physical and mental impairments. A litany of sports-related impairments -- Concussions in the NFL : myths, deceptions, denials, and lies -- Concussion related lawsuits filed against the NFL -- Football's unholy trinity: brain traumas, bounties, and deliberate injuries -- Children playing football: the NFL's Achilles heel -- Following suit : concussions in the NHL and NCAA football -- Concussion concerns for female athletes -- Brain and other severe injuries in baseball -- Why elite athletes sacrifice their health. Performance-risk rewards undermine health -- Arm injuries to elite young pitchers in baseball -- Football injuries in the NFL and college -- The NCAA provides shamefully inadequate health care for its student-athletes -- Stigma, stereotypes, and secrecy undermine athletes' mental health -- Conclusion: Protecting athletes' health in cartel governed sports

Chapters include: Use of performance-enhancing drugs in the Olympic games -- Doping scandals in international cycling--Morals vs. winning

Description: Introduction: Sports, bodies, and technoscience -- Judging artifacts. Black is the new fast : swimsuit technoscience and the recalibration of elite swimming -- Gearing up for the game : equipment as a shaper of sport -- Disabled, superabled, or normal : Oscar Pistorius and physical augmentation -- Evaluating bodies. "I know one when I see one" : sport and sex identification in an age of gender mutability -- The parable of a cancer Jesus : Lance Armstrong and the failure of direct drug testing -- "May I see your passport?" : the athlete biological passport as a technology of control -- Conclusion: Body, motor, machine : the future of technology and sport.

Chapters include:Sports enhancement / Performance-enhancing substances in sports : a review of the literature / Science at the Olympics : four selections -- Ethics of technologically constructed hypoxic environments in sport / Gene transfer for pain : a tool to cope with the intractable or an unethical endurance-enhancing technology?

This may be good for a parallel contrast of the use of steroids.