Drugs in Sport: The Pressure to Perform

ISBN-13: 9780727916068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 166 str.

British Medical Association;Bma Board of Science and Education;Bma

Opis

Description: This BMA report discusses the current situation regarding performance enhancing drugs as well as the effects of prescribed medication on sports people's performance. Written with expert advice, and rigorously reviewed by specialists, the report addresses the physician's role and responsibilities in this highly sensitive area. It should prove an invaluable guide for all doctors who are involved with the well being of sports people

Spis treści

Introduction.

Setting the scene.

The medical consequences of taking performance enhancing and other drugs in sport.

anabolic androgenic steroid use in British gymnasiums.

doping in elite level sport.

policy instruments to prevent the use of drugs in sport.

the role and responsibilities of doctors in doping in sport.

summary and recommendations

Blurb

This BMA report discusses the current situation regarding performance enhancing drugs as well as the effects of prescribed medication on sports people′s performance. Written with expert advice, and rigorously reviewed by specialists, the report addresses the physician′s role and responsibilities in this highly sensitive area. It will prove an invaluable guide for all doctors who are involved with the well being of sports people.