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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One: What We Know about Cops on Steroids -- Chapter Two: Police Chiefs and the Steroid Dilemma -- Chapter Three: Police Unions and Steroids -- Chapter Four: The Gym Culture, Where Muscular Cops Meet -- Chapter Five: Steroids in the Military -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: An Iraq War Army Veteran on Steroid Use in Combat, by Shawn Fogarty -- Notes -- Index

Black & Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients. The standard studies of medical racism examine past medical abuses of black people and do not address the racially motivated thinking and behaviors of physicians practicing medicine today.Black & Blue penetrates the physician's private sphere where racial fantasies and misinformation distort diagnoses and treatments. Doctors have always absorbed the racial stereotypes and folkloric beliefs about racial differences that permeate the general population. Within the world of medicine this racial folklore has infiltrated all of the medical sub-disciplines, from cardiology to gynecology to psychiatry. Doctors have thus imposed white or black racial identities upon every organ system of the human body, along with racial interpretations of black children, the black elderly, the black athlete, black musicality, black pain thresholds, and other aspects of black minds and bodies. The American medical establishment does not readily absorb either historical or current information about medical racism. For this reason, racial enlightenment will not reach medical schools until the current race-aversive curricula include new historical and sociological perspectives

The idea that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the major international sports federations constitute a kind of peace movement dates from the end of the nineteenth century. This essay argues that the ethically compromised leadership and political behavior of these organizations discredits this claim. Global sport has been and remains a form of show business internationalism that must be distinguished from legitimate international humanitarian organizations such as the Red Cross and Amnesty International. This essay examines the political history and behaviors of the two largest international sports organizations and analyzes the political fantasies of the global "sports autocrats" who have claimed to be peacemakers. Adapted from the source document.

The idea that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the major international sports federations constitute a kind of peace movement dates from the end of the nineteenth century. This essay argues that the ethically compromised leadership and political behavior of these organizations discredits this claim. Global sport has been and remains a form of show business internationalism that must be distinguished from legitimate international humanitarian organizations such as the Red Cross and Amnesty International. This essay examines the political history and behaviors of the two largest international sports organizations and analyzes the political fantasies of the global "sports autocrats" who have claimed to be peacemakers. Adapted from the source document.

A response to three reviews by Samuel L. Myers Jr., Rusell L. Curtis, Jr., & Lee Sigelman (all, 1998) of Hoberman's 1997 book, Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race. Anecdotal evidence is offered to support the claim that African Americans are overinvested in athletics to the neglect of intellectual accomplishment. J. Ferrari

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- One DEFINING THE PROBLEM -- Two TESTING BEGINS -- Three NATIONALISM STRIKES -- Four OLD PROBLEMS AND NEW LEADERSHIP -- Five "IN A FREE SOCIETY, IT A LL DEPENDS ON US" -- Six TURNING POINT -- Seven TOWARD A UNIFIED APPROACH -- Eight CHALLENGE AND PARTNERSHIP -- Nine A NEW CENTURY -- Ten DIFFICULTIES OF PARTNERSHIP -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX