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Book Synopsis Doping, Performance-Enhancing Drugs, and Hormones in Sport by : Anthony C. Hackney
Download or read book Doping, Performance-Enhancing Drugs, and Hormones in Sport written by Anthony C. Hackney and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doping, Performance-Enhancing Drugs, and Hormones in Sport: Mechanisms of Action and Methods of Detection examines the biochemistry and bioanalytical aspects of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) and other questionable procedures used by athletes to enhance performance. The book informs the specialist of emerging knowledge and techniques and allows the non-specialist to grasp the underlying science and current practice of the discipline. With clear and compelling language appropriate for a broad spectrum of readers, this book provides background on prevalence, types of agents, their actual or supposed benefits, and their negative effects on health. The technical aspects of detection are discussed, followed by a discussion of why detection is a problematic and still-evolving science. To facilitate comprehension, each chapter is organized in a uniform way with six sections: (1) standard medical uses, (2) why the drugs are used by athletes, (3) biological mechanism of action, (4) what research says about efficacy in improving performance, (5) major health side effects from use and abuse in sport, and 6) concluding key points. Presents the scientific concepts of how performance enhancers work, how they are used, and how they are detected and masked from detection Features language that is neither simplistic to scientists nor too sophisticated for a large, diverse global audience Provides a short “close-up in each chapter to illustrate key topics that engage, entertain, and create a novel synthesis of thought
Book Synopsis Performance-Enhancing Drugs by : Tom Robinson
Download or read book Performance-Enhancing Drugs written by Tom Robinson and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the issue of performance-enhancing drugs and its surrounding arguments. Performance-Enhancing Drugs familiarizes readers with the history of these drugs, the motivators for using them, and their side effects. Some of the biggest scandals involving performance-enhancing drugs are included, and ways to combat use of these drugs are also addressed. Color photos and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-follow text. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index.
Author :David F. Gregory Publisher :American Pharmacists Association (APhA) ISBN 13 :9781582123226 Total Pages :191 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (232 download)
Book Synopsis Sports Pharmacy by : David F. Gregory
Download or read book Sports Pharmacy written by David F. Gregory and published by American Pharmacists Association (APhA). This book was released on 2020 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sports Pharmacy, Performance Enhancing Drugs, and the Athlete provides a comprehensive compilation of information in a single location on performance enhancing substances by United States collegiate, amateur and professional athletes. The pharmacology of all classes of performance enhancing drugs is discussed as well as any data that supports their use, covering a wide range of laws, policies, regulations concerning the use of substances by athletes. Questions are included throughout the text as well as case studies to demonstrate the complexity of the issues associated with the general topic of performance enhancing drugs. Comprehensive overview of drug polices for all amateur and professional sports organizations in the US. A single source handbook for clinicians and athletes as a comprehensive overview of performance enhancing drugs. Provides a comprehensive overview of therapeutic use exemptions in athletics. Overview of dietary supplement use in athletics, including risk vs. benefit, discussion of evidence, or lack of, for performance enhancing effects. Opportunities for pharmacists to specialize in "sports pharmacy" practice and their potential value as a member of a sports medicine team"--
Book Synopsis Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances by : Aaron Smith
Download or read book Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances written by Aaron Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pursuit of more muscle, enhanced strength, sustained endurance and idealised physiques, an increasing number of elite athletes, recreational sport enthusiasts and body-conscious gym-users are turning to performance and image enhancing drugs and substances (PIEDS). In many instances, such use occurs with little regard for the health, social and economic consequences. This book presents a nuanced, evidence-based examination of PIEDS. It provides a classification of PIEDS types, physical impacts, rates of use, user profiles, legal and sporting status, and remedial program interventions, covering both elite and recreational use. It offers the perfect guide to assist students, government policy makers and sport managers in understanding the complex issues surrounding PIEDS consumption.
Book Synopsis Steroids and Other Performance-Enhancing Drugs by : Christine Honders
Download or read book Steroids and Other Performance-Enhancing Drugs written by Christine Honders and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While steroids are medically useful in small, prescribed doses, they are too often abused in sports alongside other performance-enhancing drugs. Young athletes may feel their natural performance is not good enough, so they may turn to these drugs to get ahead. Young athletes are informed about the risky effects of abusing these drugs to combat the allure of being perceived as a better player. Sidebars and full-color photographs help portray the dangerous consequences of this type of drug abuse.
Download or read book Steroids written by Rob Beamish and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 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. Clearly written and highly accessible for all readers, this book addresses a pressing issue in professional and high-performance sport—the use of steroids—by placing it within the historical context of the ongoing desire to achieve the pinnacle of human sport. Topics examined in detail include the three major crises of Ben Johnson's positive test in the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the creation of the World Anti-Doping Association, and the House Committee on Government Oversight's probe into steroid use. The author provides a critical examination of the current ban on steroids, and boldly advocates a common-sense solution to the complex problem of steroid use in sport: the adoption of harm-reduction strategies and policies rather than outright proscription.
Book Synopsis Performance Enhancing Drugs by : Justin Healey
Download or read book Performance Enhancing Drugs written by Justin Healey and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of illicit drugs to improve sporting performance, known as 'doping¿, is common in elite sport. Because of the hidden nature of doping in sport, accurate statistics are difficult to obtain, however the pressures on many athletes to succeed at any cost continues to fuel significant levels of drug abuse in sport, in spite of improved modern testing regimes. Catching drug cheats is essential if sports are to be conducted fairly and if harmful health effects from drug abuse are to be avoided. A number of sports are plagued by suspicions that many top athletes resort to drug-taking to enhance their performance through the use of such substances as anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, erythropoietin (EPO), beta-blockers, stimulants and diuretics. What substances and methods are banned in competitive sport, and how can they aid performance and harm the body? What are the latest anti-doping measures and how should drug cheats be dealt with?Chapter 1: Drug Use in SportChapter 2: Anti-Doping in SportGlossary; Facts and Figures; Additional Resources; Index
Book Synopsis Gym Culture, Identity and Performance-Enhancing Drugs by : Ask Vest Christiansen
Download or read book Gym Culture, Identity and Performance-Enhancing Drugs written by Ask Vest Christiansen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about gym culture, the pursuit of fit, muscular bodies and the use of drugs as a means to get there. Building on the international research literature and in-depth interviews with men who have experience of image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs), the book explores the fascination with muscles, motivations for using drugs to enhance them, assessments of risks, and experience of side effects. The book examines what the altered body does to the men’s identity, self-image and relationships with peers and partners. Taking an evolutionary psychological approach, it also investigates the biological and psychological foundations of the fascination with the muscular body and discusses the notion of precarious manhood. Building on these analyses the book considers the political and regulatory initiatives in place to prevent the use of IPEDs and assesses those strategies’ potential to reach their aims. 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.
Book Synopsis How Harmful Are Performance-Enhancing Drugs? by : John Allen
Download or read book How Harmful Are Performance-Enhancing Drugs? written by John Allen and published by Referencepoint Press. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite their health dangers, performance-enhancing drugs such as anabolic steroids are in common use not only by professional athletes but by amateurs and teenagers. Issues are discussed clearly and objectively, with added insight from experts and others, in these chapters: What Are the Facts? How Dangerous Is the Use of Performance-Enhancing Drugs? Should Performance-Enhancing Drugs Be Illegal? Do Performance-Enhancing Drugs Undermine Fairness in Sports? How Effective Are Tests for Performance-Enhancing Drugs?
Book Synopsis Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports by : Tony Khing
Download or read book Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports written by Tony Khing and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spotlight on sports is brighter than ever, and the focus isn't just on the scores. This title takes a critical look at a challenging issue within the sports world, providing history and context while also examining key factors in the issue and how it is being addressed. This title is balanced and straightforward, and uses numerous examples to illuminate the issue. With a glossary, primary source sidebars, and additional resources, this title will keep readers engaged and up to date on the biggest concerns in sports today. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Book Synopsis Drugs In Sport by : British Medical Association
Download or read book Drugs In Sport written by British Medical Association and published by BMJ Books. This book was released on 2002-04-03 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This BMA report discusses the current situation regarding performance enhancing drugs as well as the effects of prescribed medication on sports people's performance. Written with expert advice, and rigorously reviewed by specialists, the report addresses the physician's role and responsibilities in this highly sensitive area. It will prove an invaluable guide for all doctors who are involved with the well being of sports people.
Book Synopsis Performance-Enhancing Risks by : Jenny Fretland VanVoorst
Download or read book Performance-Enhancing Risks written by Jenny Fretland VanVoorst and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2010 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the effects of illegal performance enhancing drugs, including steroids.
Book Synopsis Drugs and Sports by : Facts On File, Incorporated
Download or read book Drugs and Sports written by Facts On File, Incorporated and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of the issues associated with the use of drugs in sports, with a glossary of terms and a fully annotated bibliography.
Book Synopsis An Introduction to Drugs in Sport by : Ivan Waddington
Download or read book An Introduction to Drugs in Sport written by Ivan Waddington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Drugs in Sport provides a detailed and systematic examination of the extent of drug use in sport and attempts to explain why athletes have, over the last four decades, increasingly used performance-enhancing drugs. Richly illustrated throughout with case studies and empirical data, this book is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the relationship between drugs, sport and society.
Book Synopsis Towards a Social Science of Drugs in Sport by : Jason Mazanov
Download or read book Towards a Social Science of Drugs in Sport written by Jason Mazanov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate around the role of drugs in sport is vibrant. There is a wealth of evidence from the hard end of science, telling us how drugs work, how drug testing works, and how many athletes have fallen foul of the system. The evidence from social science is still building momentum. For example, what makes an athlete use a performance enhancing substance? "To win" simply fails to explain the drug use behaviour we see among athletes. This book provides a foundation for anyone trying to understand the drugs in sport problem beyond the hard science by looking at the "people factor" from different perspectives. After building a case for the social science of drugs in sport, it is examined from the ethical, sociological, economic, legal and psychological points of view. The book concludes with a definitive statement about what researchers, policy makers, sports administrators, athletes and fans can do to achieve a social science of drugs in sport that puts people firmly in the centre of the debate. This volume was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
Book Synopsis Performance-Enhancing Technologies in Sports by : Thomas H. Murray
Download or read book Performance-Enhancing Technologies in Sports written by Thomas H. Murray and published by . This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of experts in bioethics, sports, law, and philosophy to examine the need for regulating such athletic performance-enhancing technologies as steroids and gene doping. The use of performance-improving drugs in sports dates back to the early Olympians, who took an herbal tonic before competitions to augment athletic prowess. But the permissibility of doing so came into question only in the twentieth century as the popularity of anabolic steroid use and blood doping among athletes grew. Sports officials and others—aided by the development of technologies to test participants for proscribed substances—became concerned over the physical safety of athletes and competitive fairness in sporting events. In exploring the culture, ethics, and policy issues surrounding doping in competitive athletics, the contributors to this volume detail the history and current state of drug use in sports, analyze the distinctions between acceptable and unacceptable usages, evaluate the ethical arguments for and against permitting athletes to avail themselves of new means of improving athleticism, and discuss possible future doping technologies and the issues that they are likely to raise. They explain how and why some athletes resort to doping and assess what the fair opportunity principle means in theory and practice and how it relates to the concept of an equal opportunity to perform. This frank discussion of doping in sports includes accounts by former elite athletes and offers an illuminating exchange over the meaning and value of natural talents and genetic hierarchies and the essence of fair competition.
Download or read book Doping written by Celicia Scott and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may have heard of famous sports stars being caught doping—using drugs to hit harder, cycle faster, or run faster. But you may not know why these drugs are so dangerous. From scary changes in your body and behavior, to problems with the law, performance-enhancing drugs bring with them serious consequences. Learn about the ways steroids, human growth hormone, and other drugs damage and change your body. Find out how these drugs can ruin your life and keep you from participating in the activities you love. Discover the downside of doping!
