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Athletes in numerous sports have been caught using drugs to improve their performance. Contributors analyze the causes and implications of this phenomenon.
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"The book should prove useful for research papers or debates. This is a reasoned and relatively neutral treatment."
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"Contributors include doctors, psychiatrists, and members of activist groups...Arguments, which are accompanied by references are well presented and occasionally quite riveting. Lots of opinion and information worth further examination."
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"A wealth of diagrams and illustrations helps clarify the procedures and principles essential to understanding the discussions."
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"Throughout this text keeps arguments even-tempered, information straightforward, and details unsensationalized."
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"Greenhaven's anthologies provide pertinent, original source material for researchers who are interested in varied perpectives on controversial topics. Most middle and high school libraries have books in their collections that deal with these issues, but few do so in such a clearly differentiatied, balanced manner. These slim volumes...complement and balance books that purport to deal with the topics in general or that present only one viewpoint. Recommended."
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"Among the books many strengths is its inclusion of diverse, opinionated essayists who come from many professions and have varying expertise."
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"For readers who prefer to know both sides of a perspective, Greenhaven Press presents a new series - At Issue. Experts offer their opinions on controversial subjects facing our society today. The At Issue series is for the discerning reader. If you want to be well versed and understanding on a specific topic, this series will open your mind on the many sides of an issue."
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"Collection of starkly personal essays...First person accounts then take readers on some startling and intimate journeys. A few essays are more analytical...Some are impassioned views...In all cases, the writers include vivid details and some eye-opening viewpoints."
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-- Booklist (Febraury 2003) (Booklist 20030201)
"This book is great for debate material or as a writing prompt for persuasive essays. This collection is for mature readers with the critical-thinking skills needed to understand and evaluate the materials."
-- School Library Journal (August 2002) (School Library Journal 20020801)
"The book should prove useful for research papers or debates. This is a reasoned and relatively neutral treatment."
-- School Library Journal (July 2002) (School Library Journal 20020701)
"Contributors include doctors, psychiatrists, and members of activist groups...Arguments, which are accompanied by references are well presented and occasionally quite riveting. Lots of opinion and information worth further examination."
-- Booklist (June 2002) (Booklist 20020615)
"A wealth of diagrams and illustrations helps clarify the procedures and principles essential to understanding the discussions."
-- School Library Journal (June 2002) (School Library Journal 20020601)
"Throughout this text keeps arguments even-tempered, information straightforward, and details unsensationalized."
-- Booklist (May 2002) (Booklist 20020515)
"Greenhaven's anthologies provide pertinent, original source material for researchers who are interested in varied perpectives on controversial topics. Most middle and high school libraries have books in their collections that deal with these issues, but few do so in such a clearly differentiatied, balanced manner. These slim volumes...complement and balance books that purport to deal with the topics in general or that present only one viewpoint. Recommended."
-- The Book Report (March-April 2002) (Book Report 20020401)
"Among the books many strengths is its inclusion of diverse, opinionated essayists who come from many professions and have varying expertise."
-- Booklist (April 2001) (Booklist 20010401)
"For readers who prefer to know both sides of a perspective, Greenhaven Press presents a new series - At Issue. Experts offer their opinions on controversial subjects facing our society today. The At Issue series is for the discerning reader. If you want to be well versed and understanding on a specific topic, this series will open your mind on the many sides of an issue."
-- Eclectic Book Reviews (January-April 2001) (UNKNOWN 20010401)
"Collection of starkly personal essays...First person accounts then take readers on some startling and intimate journeys. A few essays are more analytical...Some are impassioned views...In all cases, the writers include vivid details and some eye-opening viewpoints."
-- Booklist (March 2001) (Booklist 20010315)
Gr. 6-12. This entry in the At Issue series deals with the apparently flagrant drug abuse among athletes and the ethical erosion of sports by unscrupulous athletes, trainers, doctors, and pharmacists who keep finding ways to outwit drug testers. Citing examples from the East German women's Olympic swim team to home run champion Mark McGwire, essayists paint a clear, rather dismal picture of the complexities of the situation and the difficulties of convincing athletes to forego drugs when a substantial number of high-school athletes, Olympic heroes, and professional dynamos use stimulants to enhance performance. Although most of the essays (including one by award-winning YA author and sports journalist Robert Lipsyte) present negative, overwhelmingly discouraging views of the issue, the information is eye-opening enough to give readers much to consider. Roger Leslie
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- PublisherGreenhaven Press
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1565106962
- ISBN 13 9781565106963
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages93
- EditorDudley William
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