Steroids: A New Look at Performance-Enhancing Drugs

by Rob Beamish

Book Overview

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.

From Baron Pierre de Coubertin's original objectives in establishing the modern Olympic Games to the increasingly widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs during the Cold War to the 1998 drug scandal during the Tour de France and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313380244
• ISBN13: 9780313380242
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 7 to 17 years