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Gym Culture, Identity and Performance-Enhancing Drugs: Tracing a Typology of Steroid Use
This book is about gym culture, the pursuit of fit, muscular bodies and the use of drugs as a means to get there. It explores the fascination with muscles, motivations for using drugs to enhance them, assessments of risks, and experience of side effects.
| Author(s) | By Ask Vest Christiansen. |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Paperback / softback |
| Pages | 260 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 1 Feb 2022 |
| Availability | POD |
This book is about gym culture, the pursuit of fit, muscular bodies and the use of drugs as a means to get there. It explores the fascination with muscles, motivations for using drugs to enhance them, assessments of risks, and experience of side effects.
1. Introduction, 2. IPEDs as a cultural phenomenon, 3. Effects and side effects of anabolic steroids, 4. Identity and recognition, 5. The allure of muscles, size and strength, 6. Up close and personal with four IPED users, 7. Ideal types in IPED use, 8. S
Ask Vest Christiansen is Associate Professor of Sport Science in the Department of Public Health at Aarhus University in Denmark. He is also Co-Director of the International Network of Doping Research (INDR). Dr Christiansen's research has followed two ma
