Performance-Enhancing Drugs

by Tamara L. Roleff (Editor)

Overview

Essayist Jesse Haggard tells readers that performance-enhancing drugs should be allowed in sports, while Sal Marinello provides a compelling essay on quiet the opposite view. The series of essays in this book debate the hot-topics relating to performance-enhancing drugs. By providing multiple perspectives, readers will engage critical thinking skills in order to form their own intelligent opinions. Should sports management and governments become more involved in fighting this drug use? Is there a double standard to performance enhancements in sports? Readers will evaluate questions such as these through this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780737747454
Publisher:	Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Publication date:	02/27/2010
Series:	Issues That Concern You Series
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	13 - 16 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction 5

1 Anabolic Steroids Are Dangerous Drugs Dan Clark 10

2 Steroid Drugs Are Not All Bad Gary Cartwright 18

3 Using Performance-Enhancing Drugs Is Cheating Richard W. Pound 25

4 Using Performance-Enhancing Drugs Is Not Cheating Radley Balko 33

5 A Double Standard Applies to Performance Enhancements in Sports Carl Thomen 41

6 Performance-Enhancing Drugs Should Be Allowed in Sports Jesse Haggard 49

7 Performance-Enhancing Drugs Do Not Belong in Sports Sal Marinello 59

8 Using Steroids in Baseball Is Beneficial to the Game Jose Canseco 67

9 Using Steroids in Baseball Is Not Beneficial to the Game Armstrong Williams 75

10 Baseball Management Contributed to the Abuse of Performance-Enhancing Drugs Ryder Stevens 80

11 Governments Must Become Involved in Fighting Performance-Enhancing Drugs John Fahey 85

Appendix

What You Should Know About Performance-Enhancing Drugs 94

What You Should Do About Performance-Enhancing Drugs 97

Organizations to Contact 100

Bibliography 105

Index 108

Picture Credits 112

Editorial Reviews

Review: Performance-Enhancing Drugs "Underpinning sportsmanship is an abstract idea about the purity of games and the nobility of competition. This volume in Greenhaven's Issues That Concern You series probes whether it is morally wrong for athletes to use steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. Several chapters are adapted from books. One is from a master's thesis. Also included are articles from Reason, The Christian Science Monitor, and many online news sources. There is an appendix with emphatic character education guidance related to the subject, a list of organizations for contact, a bibliography of books and journal articles, and an index. This would pair well with or provide additional information for teens reading Carl Dekker's "Gym Candy", "Juiced" by Eric Walter or any of the other young adult novels addressing steroid in high school athletics. Recommended for school libraries."—Reference Unbound, May 2010

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