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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

Smart exercise : burning fat, getting fit / Covert Bailey.  Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1996?], c1994. [1996?], c1994.
 
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

Drugs and the athlete / Gary I. Wadler, Brian Hainline. Philadelphia : F.A. Davis Co., c1989. c1989.
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

The Exercising adult / edited by Robert C. Cantu. New York : Macmillan Pub. Co., c1987. c1987.
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

Sport, health and drugs : a critical sociological perspective / Ivan Waddington. London ; New York : E & FN Spon, c2000. c2000.
BOOK STACKS QT 261 W122 2000

The steroids game / Charles E. Yesalis, Virginia S. Cowart. Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, c1998. c1998.
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 Elite
  • Academic Search Premier
  • Basic BIOSIS
  • Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
  • Ebsco Health Source: Consumer Edition
  • ERIC
  • Index Medicus & MEDLINE Database
  • Newspaper Source

Selected electronic resources

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

 
 
Last Updated: 06/23/2006
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