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Gym Culture, Identity and Performance-Enhancing Drugs

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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.

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ISBN: 9780367497644
Publication date:
Author: Ask Vest Christiansen
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 242 pages
Series: Ethics and Sport
Genres: Drug abuse in sport
Gender studies: men and boys
Sociology: sport and leisure
Health, illness and addiction: social aspects
Personal and public health / health education
Sport science, physical education
Sports psychology
Medical sociology
Legal aspects of criminology
Crime and criminology
Psychology