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Gym Culture, Identity and Performance-Enhancing Drugs: Tracing a Typology of Steroid Use

Gym Culture, Identity and Performance-Enhancing Drugs: Tracing a Typology of Steroid Use

Christiansen, Ask Vest

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Series: Ethics and Sport

Sports GeneralAddiction & RecoveryBodybuilding & Weight Training

ISBN10: 0367497646
ISBN13: 9780367497644
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 1 2022
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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