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Brand - Human Kinetics

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Sport - Physical Education

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		Performance - Enhancing Substances in Sport and Exercise (Book) See larger image List Price: $68.95 Sale Price: $65.50 You Save: $3.45 # HK-0-73603-679-2

This authoritative and heavily referenced book includes everything from anabolics and stimulants to gene transfer therapy and beyond. It presents the following:

• The history of doping in sport and exercise
• The latest clinical and scientific research and reference material available concerning the use and abuse of performance-enhancing substances among professional, Olympic-level, college, and high school athletes
• Important developments in the legal aspects of use in sport and exercise
• New information related to substance and drug testing
• The issues surrounding assessment of the efficacy of performance-enhancing substances
• Information on the new and emerging technologies-such as gene transfer therapy and new drug delivery systems-that have potential for abuse by athletes.

No other text offers analyses of the ergogenic efficacy of nearly every substance currently used and abused by athletes today. It paints a complete picture of performance-enhancing substances and related issues. It gathers essential studies, data, and commentary not available elsewhere in one resource. Performance-Enhancing Substances in Sport and Exercise features 29 chapters covering dozens of substances, thousands of references, and chapters devoted to the history and future of performance-enhancing substances in sport and exercise, the determination of the efficacy of substances, drug testing, and legal issues.

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HK-0-73603-679-2

Price: $65.50