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. A comprehensive history of steroid use in Olympic
sport and the policy decisions related to their proscription
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