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Drugs in sport / edited by David R. Mottram.
- Title
- Drugs in sport / edited by David R. Mottram.
- Publication
- London : E. & F.N. Spon, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | RC1230 .D786 1996 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Mottram, D. R. (David R.), 1944-
- Description
- xxi, 273 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This book explores the topic of drugs in sport from both a scientific and social/political viewpoint. It covers each major class of drugs, describing how they work and their effects, and looks at why drugs are used in sport.
- Subject
- Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / Sally Gunnell -- 1. What is a drug? / David R. Mottram -- 2. Drug use and abuse in sport / Michele Verroken -- 3. Sympathomimetic amines and their antagonists / David J. Armstrong -- 4. Central nervous system stimulants / Alan George -- 5. Drug treatment of inflammation in sports injuries / Peter Elliott -- 6. Alcohol, anti-anxiety drugs and sport / Thomas Reilly -- 7. The anabolic steroids and peptide hormones / Alan George -- 8. Blood boosting and sport / David J. Armstrong and Thomas Reilly -- 9. Doping control in sport / Michele Verroken and David R. Mottram.
- ISBN
- 0419188908 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- gb^97008001^
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library