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Ask Vest Christiansen |
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| Ass. Professor, Department of Sports Science, Aarhus Universitet |
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| Department of Sports Science, Aarhus Universitet |
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E-mail: |
| avc@sport.au.dk |
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Website: |
| http://person.au.dk/en/avc@sport.au.dk |
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Curriculum Vitae: |
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Presentations
Testing recreational athletes - Play the Game 2009 (PP Pdf)
Goals, medicine and moral - Athletes’ understanding of sport, doping and fair play - Play the Game 2007 (PP Pdf.)
New Rules of Conduct? Doping after Festina - Play the Game 2005 (PP Pdf.)
CV
My main research area is humanistic doping research. This has followed two main branches: Doping in elite sports and recreational athletes’ doping in fitness and strength training environments.
My Ph.D thesis focused the social and cultural mechanisms that have led doping to be a predominant parameter in professional cycling.
Also in the research that followed, where the perspective was broadened to elite sport in general, I have addressed the athletes’ perspective in order to understand the motives and moral values that lie behind their decisions to dope or not to dope.
In my ongoing research I concentrate on amateur and recreational athletes’ use of anabolic steroids in gyms and health clubs. Again long interviews are being carried out in order to understand the use of steroids in these milieus as a cultural rather than medical problem. |
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