Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Coubertin's Olympic Project; Chapter 2: Sports, Spectacles, and the Nation-State: The Nazi Olympics; Chapter 3: The Olympic Games' Fundamental Principle: The Spirit of Olympism; Chapter 4: The Social Construction of Steroids in Sports; Chapter 5: Interests of the Nation-State, Sports, and Steroids; Chapter 6: Steroids in Sports: The Social Construction of a New Moral Panic; Conclusion: Sports, Modernity, and Steroids; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Sports fans or not, readers will be fascinated by this revealing examination of the pressures leading to the widespread use of steroids in sport and the negative, unintended consequences of their ban
