Steroids (Health and Medical Issues Today) - Hardcover

Zorea, Aharon W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1440802998 ISBN 13: 9781440802997

Publisher: Greenwood, 2014

Synopsis

A thorough, balanced examination of the controversies on the therapeutic and non-therapeutic use of steroids that covers both legal medical therapy and illegal performance enhancement.

The discussions regarding the ethical, medical, and social controversies surrounding steroid use are as heated as the drugs themselves are powerful. Steroids comprehensively addresses the separate debates over steroid use in therapeutic medical treatments, sports performance enhancement, and cosmetic lifestyle choices. The contents provide balanced coverage of the complex positive and negative implications involved with using these "ingredients of youth" to evade the common ailments of old age and to overcome some of the limitations of natural biology. This book will be invaluable to students of not only health and exercise sciences, sports and sport-related fields, and medical science, but also those researching social and ethical questions involved with the use of steroids in related fields. For example, the book may be used by sociology students investigating social aspects of sports, health policy, and public role models; psychology students focusing on the role of self-image and mental health; and political science students researching public health policy.

About this title

About the Author

Aharon W. Zorea, PhD, is associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Richland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Greenwood
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1440802998
• ISBN 13: 9781440802997
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256