Human Enhancement Drugs

Herausgeber: de Ven, Katinka van; McVeigh, Jim; Mulrooney, Kyle J D

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together a range of experts across sociology, criminology, psychology, public health, sports science and law, this book analyses the trends and developments in research on human enhancement drugs to promote effective policy responses.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781138552791
• ISBN-10: 1138552798
• Artikelnr.: 56849911

Autorenporträt

Katinka van de Ven is a Research Fellow as part of the Drug Policy Modelling Program (DPMP) at the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC), University of New South Wales. Katinka's research focuses on the use and supply of performance and image enhancing drugs (PIEDs), which includes projects surrounding the prevention of PIED use, harm reduction policies and improving healthcare services for users. She is Honorary Research Fellow at the Public Health Institute, Liverpool John Moores University. Katinka is Editor-in-Chief of Performance Enhancement & Health and the Director of the Human Enhancement Drug Network (HEDN) (www.humanenhancementdrugs.com). Kyle J. D. Mulrooney is a lecturer in Criminology at the University of New England and the co-director of the Centre for Rural Criminology (UNE). His primary field of research is the Sociology of punishment in which he has examined issues ranging from the nexus between penal populism and political culture to the areas of drug policy and rural crime. He is also particularly interested in the use, supply, and regulation of enhancement drugs. Kyle holds a PhD in Cultural and Global Criminology from the University of Kent and Universität Hamburg, an MA in the Sociology of Law from the International Institute for the Sociology of Law and a BA (Honours) in Criminology and Justice from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Jim McVeigh is the Director of the Public Health Institute at Liverpool John Moores University. He has worked within health/public health for over 30 years and has built an international reputation within the field of human enhancement drug use, in particular, the use of anabolic steroids and associated drugs within the general population.

Inhaltsangabe

1. An introduction to human enhancement drugs Part I: Understanding the use
of human enhancement drugs in society 2. More than unnatural masculinity:
gendered and queer perspectives on human enhancement drugs 3. The
anti-doping industry coming of age: in search of new markets 4. The social
construction of human enhancement: implications for sports 5. Steroid
madness: has the dark side of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) been
over-stated? 6. Licit forms of performance enhancement and possible links
with IPED use: current knowledge and future directions Part II: Human
enhancement drugs, harms and public health 7. Infections and risk among
people who use image and performance enhancing drugs 8. "Objects in the
mirror are larger than they appear": steroids and body image disorders 9.
Estimated prevalence, effects and potential risks of substances used for
cognitive enhancement 10. "Beauty through the eye of a needle": an online
study of the practices and beliefs of people who inject performance and
image enhancing drugs (PIEDs) 11. The use of sunless synthetic tanning
products 12. The non-medical uses of prescription stimulants in the
Australian context Part III: Illicit human enhancement drug markets and
their suppliers 13. The (online) supply of illicit lifestyle medicines: a
criminological study 14. A preliminary attempt to scope the market for
doping products in Italy 15. Trust, risk and deceit in the illicit
medicines market: an analysis of the on- and offline trust relations
between sellers and buyers of illicit medicines 16. The open bar has
closed: changes in the patterns of doping supply in elite cycling 17. The
supply of Image and Performance Enhancing Drugs (IPED) to local non-elite
users in England: resilient traditional and newly emergent methods Part IV:
Responding to human enhancement drugs 18. Different users, different
interventions: on the ideal typology of anabolic-androgenic steroid use and
its implications for prevention, harm reduction and treatment 19. The war
on anabolic-androgenic steroids: an examination of U.S. legislative and
enforcement efforts 20. Preventing image and performance enhancement drug
use: it's not all chalk and talk 21. How to respond to the increasing use
of cognitive enhancers in academia? 22. One size does not fit all: tackling
the issue of weight-loss drug use