First Draft of Annotated Bibliography

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Annotated Bibliography

Waddington, I., & Smith, A. (2009). The other side of sports medicine: sports medicine and the development of performance-enhancing drugs. In An introduction to drugs in sports: addicted to winning?. (pp. 89-101). New York, New York United States: Routledge.

In this chapter of Waddington and Smith’s book, they say that sports medicine has been one of the major contexts within which performance enhancing drugs have been developed and used.  They give three case studies, the use of drugs in some of the former communist countries of Eastern Europe, the early development and use of anabolic steroids in the United States, and blood doping.  These case studies help to illustrate how performance enhancing drugs evolved from sports medicine.  This chapter gives good information on the evolution on performance enhancing drugs, but doesn’t do a good job of explaining why athletes began the use of performance enhancing drugs (steroids).

Use of performance enhancing drugs in sport. (n.d.). Retrieved March 10th, 2012 from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_performance-enhancing_drugs_in_sport

This Wikipedia article describes that the use of performance enhancing drugs in steroids if refered to as doping.  There is a brief history given that includes the man who fathered the father of anabolic steroids in the United States, Jon Ziegler.  Zeigler was a physician for the U.S. weightlifting team who learned that the reason for the Russian’s success in the sport was due to their use of performance-enhancing drugs.  This article is interesting and good for a brief history on how performance enhancing drugs were brought to the United States, but doesn’t go into much detail.

C Geier. (2006, December 11). Steroid use in sports extends far out of bounds. [Web log message]. Retrieved from http://sportandsteroids.blogspot.com/

In this brief blog Geier discusses that anabolic steroid abuse in sports is a major problem. He also talks about the decision that professional athletes make to use steroids and how it affects not only the athletes but everyone whether or not that person pays attention to sports. Geier also wrote about an incident with an athlete who was guilty of using steroids. This article is very short and is also very old but it does have credible information.

Rodriguez, A. (2010, August 4). Alex Rodriguez. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/alex_rodriguez/index.html?scp=9&sq=steroid%20abuse%20and%20athletes&st=cse

In this newspaper article the author talks about Alex Rodriguez career as a baseball player. He then talks about when Rodriguez started abusing steroids and how he had obtained the steroids. In the article Rodriguez says that he would inject himself with the drug twice a month for six months a year. Rodriguez became a spokesman for a group dedicated to educate people about the dangers of steroids. This article is fairly new still and has credible information. It has personal quotes that Rodriguez said himself.