Vocabularies of motive for illicit steroid use among bodybuilders

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 695-708

  Monaghan, Lee F ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bodybuilding; Embodiment; Illicit drug use; Risk; South Wales; Steroids; UK

Indexed keywords

ILLICIT DRUG; STEROID;

DRUG USER;

ARTICLE; BODY BUILDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DENIAL; DRUG USE; EGO IDENTITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOLOGY;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY IMAGE; COMPLICITY; CULTURE; DOPING IN SPORTS; EXERCISE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEW SOUTH WALES; RATIONALIZATION; RISK-TAKING; STEROIDS; VOCABULARY; WEIGHT LIFTING;

EID: 0036308679     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(01)00195-2     Document Type: Article

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