Body conceptions and virtual ethnopharmacology in an online bodybuilding community

Performance Enhancement and Health

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-38

  Smith, Aaron C T ^a   Stewart, Bob ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body image; Ethnopharmacology; Internet; Performance enhancing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864302046     PISSN: 22112669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peh.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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