Ben cousins and the 'double life': Exploring citizenship and the voluntarity/compulsivity binary through the experiences of a 'drug addicted' elite athlete

Critical Public Health

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 439-452

  Seear, Kate ^a   Fraser, Suzanne ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ben Cousins; Drug Addiction; Eve Sedgwick

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; AWARDS AND PRIZES; CASE REPORT; CITIZENSHIP; COMPULSION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; DRUG USE; FOOTBALL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; OBESITY; PATHOLOGICAL GAMBLING; PERSONALITY; POLICE; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POLITICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SELF CONCEPT; STIGMA;

EID: 78649483171     PISSN: 09581596     EISSN: 14693682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09581591003653132     Document Type: Article

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