ABSTRACT
The assumptions that are made about the relationship between different forms of enhancements in sport and the effect that they have on the body and health are complex and vary between different parts of the world. Various histories of the use of drugs in sport have charted incidents of death and self-induced harm to the body (Dimeo, 2007; Lopez, 2011). Public opinion is far from uniform on this issue but, as Sport in Focus 12.1 illustrates, this is not new. As Eichberg (2011) argues, it is as difficult in the twenty-first century as it was
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in the nineteenth century to ascertain just exactly what is the normalised body and what is the normalised or accepted truth about drugs in sport, and who defines this truth. The relationship between sport, the body, health and well-being is both complex and culturally and socially varied.
