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| The Performance Enhancement-Health NexusPages 1-2 | ||||
| Challenging human and sporting boundaries: The case of Oscar PistoriusOriginal Research Article | ||||
Highlights
► The case of Oscar Pistorius challenges the boundary of health and performance enhancement. ► Sport may be driving towards the spectacle of the “enhanced human”. ► Technological enhancement in sport poses questions about distinguishing between repairing and/or enhancing the human in pursuit of (sporting) excellence.
| Expanding the Female Athlete Triad concept to address a public health issueReview Article | ||||
Highlights
► This paper challenges the prevailing concept of the Female Athlete Triad for being inaccurate and over-specific ► A unified framework, Female Energy Deficiency (FED), is suggested to capture the extent and depth of this health condition ► The FED can reconcile the existing terminologies and facilitate changing the way this health condition is viewed ► The FED affords the necessary flexibility for expansion, along with facilitating early detection and effective prevention
| Athletes’ perceptions of performance enhancing substance user and non-user prototypesOriginal Research Article | ||||
Highlights
► Positive and negative prototypes were identified for performance enhancing substance users and non-users ► Performance enhancing substance users were perceived to be motivated, confident and rule breakers ► Athletes characterised non-users as role models, reliable and risk averse ► Universal performance enhancing substance user and non-user prototypes may not exist but may influence doping use ► Prototype perceptions provide a new approach to anti-doping via targeted interventions aiming to modify desired selves
| Body conceptions and virtual ethnopharmacology in an online bodybuilding communityPages 35-38 | ||||
Highlights
► An extreme conception of masculinity dominated the online bodybuilding forum. ► Social power increased commensurate with muscular size and strength. ► A fanatical obsession was found with nutrition, supplements, training and drugs, with knowledge freely discussed and transmitted in the forum. ► Body conceptions were liked to physical size and intimidation. ► Negative health implications were considered worth the price for muscular size.
| “Will steroids kill me if I use them once?” A qualitative analysis of inquiries submitted to the Danish anti-doping authoritiesOriginal Research Article | ||||
Highlights
► Anti Doping Denmark offers web-based counselling to inquirers on anabolic steroids (AS). ► The article examines content and meaning for two categories of inquiries. ► There is great variance in the distribution of knowledge of AS between inquirers. ► Inquirers determined to use AS pose a separate challenge for anti-doping education. ► Harm reduction policies could be considered as an alternative to the present policy.
