A socio-cultural study of the development of attitudes to the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport
Başlık:
A socio-cultural study of the development of attitudes to the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport
Yazar:
Ruddle, Andrew Peter, author.
ISBN:
9780355977899
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 electronic resource (209 pages)
Genel Not:
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-08C.
Özet:
In recent years certain sports and sporting events have assumed a place not only in the media but also the public consciousness that would have been impossible to imagine half a century ago. The detached observer might assume that this sporting world is free standing, and lose sight of the often-complex interchange of emotional investment and moral values between sports and the societies which constructed them. The purpose of this work is to examine the formation and current understanding of one of the most important issues within this exchange. Although recreational use of a wide range of different drugs has attracted disapproval to varying extents for many years, the comparatively recent appropriation and use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport has - officially - only attracted disapproval and hostility. Apparent reasons for this disparity become less clear when the various arguments are examined in any detail, and the origins of a moral justification appear to be only incidental to health-based concerns. It is also evident that much of the hostility to performance-enhancing drugs derives directly from that shown to recreational types, which in turn have long been the subject of ill-informed debate and political manoeuvring with the current state of Western political opinion apparently locked into tacit acceptance of the status quo. The role of the media in this sustained criticism is of importance, and the growing significance of the same media in promoting certain sports and performers has served to distort further what might in other circumstances have been a "normal" business relationship. The greatly increased visibility of sports from - depending on the country considered - the early 1960's to the mid 1980's was supported by and at the same time promoted the growth of sponsorship and occasional government involvement, and it is suggested that this has produced an effect within various sports resembling addiction to and dependency on financial support. The increasing visibility of sports has also been closely bound to the increased number of media outlets - especially television, where sports coverage remains an inexpensive form of programming. The rise in media influence has also fed off other changes and trends in the last century, in particular the increasingly prominent role of medical science in both daily life and elite sport. The moral arguments against performance-enhancing drugs do not survive scrutiny in any depth, unlike the health argument which - whilst not completely watertight - does appear sufficiently robust to support any investigation and/or sanction. At the same time, apparent soft-pedalling by governments in respect of tobacco and alcohol misuse has weakened many anti-drug arguments, especially those against recreational drugs. The position of sport at die start of this century as one of the most visible social activities necessarily means that it is in a process of exchange with the wider world, reflecting whatever values society as a whole has constructed for itself from time to time. It is concluded that society may possibly find a way to come to terms with both recreational and performance-enhancing drugs.
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School code: 1543
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