Sport In Contemporary Society: An Anthology - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594513031 ISBN 13: 9781594513039

Publisher: Paradigm Pub

Synopsis

This new printing of Sport in Contemporary Society includes a new supplement on the facts, opinions, and scandals surrounding steroids in professional and amateur sports. Included is an informative government report that accessibly lays out the facts for students on increased use of steroids and the medical and performance effects on athletes. Additional articles critique, from different positions, steroid use and the policies various sports organizations have undertaken.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Varda Burstyn, Jay J. Coakley, Alexander Wolff, Timothy Jon Curry, Dan C. Hilliard, Michael A. Messner, Michelle Dunbar, Darnell Hunt, Douglas A. Lederman, Laurel R. Davis, Maxine Baca Zinn, Larry Tye, Joan Ryan, Mike Bresnahan, Leslie Heywood, Jill Neimark, Richard E. Lapchick, Murray Sperber, Alisa Solomon, Paul Newberry, Tom Lowry, Roger G. Noll, Andrew Zimbalist, Kevin Simpson, George H. Sage, Mike Klis, Donna Lopiano, Pat Griffin, Brian Pronger, Peter Dreier.

About the Author:

D. Stanley Eitzen, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Colorado State University, earned his Ph.D. at the University of Kansas. Although he is well known for his scholarship on homelessness, poverty, social inequality, power, family, and criminology, he is best known for his contributions to the sociology of sport. In 1996, he was selected to be a Sports Ethics Fellow at the Institute for International Sport.

About this edition

• Publisher: Paradigm Pub
• ISBN 10: 1594513031
• ISBN 13: 9781594513039
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Eitzen D. Stanley