The Muscle Trade

The Use and Supply of Image and Performance Enhancing Drugs

Nick Gibbs (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

202 Seiten

2023
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
9781529227949 (ISBN)

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The health and fitness industry has experienced a meteoric rise over the past two decades, yet its slick exterior conceals a darker side. Using ethnographic data from gyms, interviews, and social media platforms, this book investigates the growing consumption of image and performance enhancing drugs (IPEDs), the motivations behind their use, and their role in masculine body image.

Addressing a gap in the literature, Nick Gibbs also interrogates both the offline and digital drug supply chains with important insights for IPED harm reduction practitioners, law makers and policy advisors.

Nick Gibbs is Lecturer of Criminology in the Department of Social Sciences at Northumbria University.

1. Introduction

2. Situating the Research

3. Reimagining the Health and Fitness Industry as a Site of Deviant Leisure

Part 1 – Consumption

4. Desire and Dissatisfaction in the Gym

5. Instrumentality, Competitiveness, and Hyper-conformity

6. The Pleasures of Consumption: The Curious Case of Phillip

7. #Ripped: Social Media, Prosumption, and Bodily Desire

Part 2 – Supply-side

8. Production

9. The Offline IPED Marketplace

10. The IPED Market in Transition: Commercialization, Normalization, and Digitization

11. The Online IPED Market

12. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	15.11.2023
Zusatzinfo	2 Tables, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781529227949 / 9781529227949
Zustand	Neuware