Sports fans or not, readers will be fascinated by this revealing examination of the pressures leading to the widespread use of steroids in sport and the negative, unintended consequences of their ban.
Preface
Introduction
1. Coubertin's Olympic Project
2. Sports, Spectacles, and the Nation-State: The Nazi Olympics
3. The Olympic Games' Fundamental Principle: The Spirit of
Olympism
4. The Social Construction of Steroids in Sports
5. Interests of the Nation-State, Sports, and Steroids
6. Steroids in Sports: The Social Construction of a New Moral
Panic
Conclusion: Sports, Modernity, and Steroids
Bibliography
Index
Rob Beamish is associate professor of sociology at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
The book is well researched and referenced; Beamish reanalyzes
available literature, offers different and courageous viewpoints,
clarifies misinformation, and warns of unintended consequences of
banning steroids. Valuable for those interested in the sociology of
sport. Summing Up: Recommended.
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