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Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances Aaron Smith

Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances By Aaron Smith

Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances by Aaron Smith


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This book presents a performance and image enhancing substance typology, providing a comprehensive, empirically-based analysis of each substance category and highlighting the patterns, scope, and volume of use. It reviews the programs and interventions employed to constrain use and manage the risks of use, for both elite and recreational users.

Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances Summary

Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances: Issues, Influences and Impacts by Aaron Smith

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.

About Aaron Smith

Aaron C. T. Smith is Professor of Sport Business at the Institute for Sport Business, Loughborough University London, UK. His research investigates psychological, organisational and policy change in sport, business, health, religion, technology and society.

Bob Stewart is a Principle Consultant with Aztek Developments and a former Professor of Sport Policy in the College of Sport and Exercise Science at Victoria University, Australia. Bob has a special interest in player regulation in professional team sports, and the ways in which the forces of neoliberalism and hyper-commercialism shape the structure and conduct of contemporary sport.

Kate Westberg is Associate Professor of Marketing at RMIT University, Australia. Her research focuses primarily on the areas of sport marketing and sponsorship, branding, social marketing and behavioural change.

Constantino Stavros is Associate Professor of Marketing at RMIT University, Australia, and the Editor-in-Chief of Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal. His research interests lie predominantly at the intersection of consumption and technology.

Table of Contents

1. Apply, Ingest, Inject and Regret: Introduction to Performance and Image Enhancing Substances, 2. Power, Pleasure, Fat and Fit: Dietary and Nutritional Supplements as PIEDS, 3. Use, Abuse, Patterns and Profiles: Scale and Scope of PIEDS use in Sport, 4. Channels, Choices, Causes and Codes: The Impact of Culture, Values, and Ethnicity, 5. Thoughts, Functions, Brains and Boosters: Cognitive Enhancers as PIEDS, 6. Protein, Prohormones, Steroids and Stimulants: Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances Typology of Classes, 7. Givens, Gaps, Confidences and Cautions: Conclusion

Additional information

NLS9781138492950
9781138492950
1138492957
Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs and Substances: Issues, Influences and Impacts by Aaron Smith
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2018-06-13
166
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