Scoping
the Sciences
Extreme Fitness
This guide is an introductory list to help locate research materials at the Rowland Medical Library. While regular exercise and fitness goals are healthy, some athletes take their training to the extreme by abusing performance-enhancing drugs in pursuit of heightened performance.
Guides / Handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries / Selected textbooks / More books / Selected journals / More journals / Selected indexes, abstracts and databases / Selected electronic resources
Guides
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Buzzed
: the straight facts about the most used and abused drugs from alcohol
to ecstasy / Cynthia
Kuhn, Scott
Swartzwelder, Wilkie Wilson ; with Leigh Heather Wilson and Jeremy
Foster. New York : W.W. Norton,
c1998. c1998.
CONSUMER HEALTH QV 76.5 K836 1998
Fitness
and exercise sourcebook / edited by Dan R. Harris.
Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics, c 2001. c2001.
BOOK STACKS QT 260 F476 2001
CONSUMER HEALTH QT 255 B144 1994
Handbooks, encyclopedias,
dictionaries
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Allen
& Hanbury's athletic drug reference / editors, Jack M.
Rosenberg, Robert J. Fuentes, Art Davis. Durham, N.C. : Clean Data, Inc.,
c1992. c1992.
BOOK STACKS QT 260 A443 1992
Drug
abuse handbook / editor-in-chief, Steven B. Karch.
Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, c1998. c1998.
BOOK STACKS QV 39 D782 1998
Regular
exercise : a handbook for clinical practice / Steven Jonas.
New York : Springer Pub. Co., c1995.
c1995.
BOOK STACKS QT 260 J662 1995
Selected textbooks
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Anabolic
steroids in sport and exercise / Charles E. Yesalis, editor.
Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics Publishers, c1993. c1993.
BOOK STACKS QT 260 A513 1993
Bodybuilding,
drugs and risk / Lee F. Monaghan. London
; New York : Routledge, c2001. c2001.
BOOK STACKS QT 260 M661 2001
BOOK STACKS QT 260 W123 1989
Drugs
in sport : the pressure to perform / British Medical Association.
London : BMA, c2002. c2002.
BOOK STACKS QT 261 D783 2002
BOOK STACKS QT 260 E935a 1987
Performance-enhancing
substances in sport and exercise / Michael S. Bahrke, Charles E.
Yesalis, editors.
Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, c2002. c2002.
BOOK STACKS QT 261 B237 2002
BOOK STACKS QT 261 W122 2000
BOOK STACKS WK 150 Y472 1998
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Suggested subject headings: Physical Fitness Doping in Sports Sports - Physiology Fitness - Physiology Anabolic Agents Substance-Related Disorders
Selected journals
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Journal
of sport & exercise psychology
Research quarterly for exercise and sport
Exercise and sport sciences reviews
Medicine and science in sports and exercise
Sports medicine
Journal of applied physiology
The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse
Journal of drug education
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Suggested subject headings: Fitness - Periodicals Exercise - Periodicals Sports Medicine - Periodicals Substance Abuse - Periodicals
Selected indexes, abstracts, and databases:
For article-level searching, log into the RML web site and select "Electronic Databases" from the drop-down box near the top of the page. For the topic "Extreme Fitness," you might try the following databases:
- Academic Search Premier
- Basic BIOSIS
- Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
- Ebsco Health Source: Consumer Edition
- ERIC
- Index Medicus & MEDLINE Database
- Newspaper Source
FindLaw Legal News and Commentary : FindLaw Sports
http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/sports/drugs/index.html
National Institute on Drug Abuse
http://www.drugabuse.gov/NIDAHome.html
U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency : Drugs of Concern
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/concern/concern.htm
United State Department of Health & Human
Services' Office of Applied Studies' National Survey on Drug Use and
Health
http://oas.samhsa.gov/nhsda.htm#NHSDAinfo
NIDA InfoFacts : Steroids
http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofax/steroids.html
Office of National Drug Control Policy Drug Facts
: Steroids
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/steroids/index.html
World Anti-Doping Agency
http://www.wada-ama.org/en/
The International Olympic Committee Anti-Doping
Code
http://www.olympic.org/uk/organisation/commissions/medical/antidoping_uk.asp
Author: Lauren M. Young
Copyright 2004 (Rev 2006)
Rowland Medical Library
University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson