This contribution outlines various spatial and temporal aspects of medical or public-health related calls for service from the public to police in Philadelphia in 2019. These incidents comprise about 8% of the police department’s workload that originates from the public. Calls appear to be highly concentrated in a few areas, and specifically the Center City and Kensington neighborhoods. They are also more likely to occur late afternoon and evening. The article shows that some medical or public health activity initially masquerades as crime or other policing work and some events eventually determined to be police/crime activity can initially appear to be public health related. About 20% of activity in this area does not appear predictable from the initial call type as handled by police dispatch.

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Policing and public health calls for service in Philadelphia

Policies and approaches addressing image and performance enhancing drug (IPED) use in the gym and fitness context, also known as fitness doping, vary widely by country. Fitness doping, and those wh...

Preventing, producing, or reducing harm? Fitness doping risk and enabling environments

2,4 dinitrophenol: It's not just for men.

Anabolic androgenic steroids are used by women to increase their muscle mass and because of their performance-enhancing effects. Despite permanent/high risk of side effects, knowledge is inadequate. Our aim has been to deepen understanding about women´s use of anabolic androgenic steroids. This phenomenological study is based on the reflective lifeworld research (RLR) approach. Lifeworld interviews were conducted with twelve women, aged 21-56 years, about their experiences of using anabolic steroids. The results show that women experience a sense of pride when they successfully achieve their goals. This is the driving force, triggering tension between suffering and success. Our research adds important knowledge from a reflective lifeworld perspective and shows that women´s use of anabolic androgenic steroids is a complex phenomenon. Understanding and knowledge are important in order to be able to meet and support women in their fears and difficulties.

Women's Experiences of Using Anabolic Androgenic Steroids

This article aims to describe and analyse how female doping users discuss their doping practices and interact with other community members in an online forum. The article analyses women’s narratives and how these relate to hegemonic gender configurations as regards doping and the doped female body. Analytically, the concept of hegemonic masculinity is used to approach notions of doped bodies and to investigate how women meet and possibly resist dominant gender hierarchies through doping use. The article utilises a netnographic approach to the research and data is based on discussion threads started by 45 women on a Swedish website and forum called Flashback. The results show how women entering the forum are encouraged to present their doping experiences and trajectories following a certain template through which lifestyle choices, diet, bodily ambitions, and more are explicitly addressed. Even though following the template and thereby using the correct and culturally accepted form for communication, the content is valued on the basis of hegemonic conceptualisations and understandings, which in itself results in women’s rationales and goals often being downplayed by male commentators. Accordingly, the women’s chances of establishing a space within the community, as fully accepted members, are limited. The women describe how their doping narratives are challenged based on their being women, in a way that has no equivalent for male members. In response to such criticism, some women decide to opt out of the forum, while others respond to the criticisms directed toward women, challenging the heteronormative and masculine hegemony. 

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17430437.2022.2064107?needAccess=true

’I’m quite tired of people saying that I don’t do enough or know anything’: male hegemony and resistance in the context of women’s online communication on doping

This article is part of a larger investigation looking into recent changes in the demographics of fitness doping and the possible consequences of such changes. Contesting the historical alliance be ...

Ellen Sverkersson

Papers

‘Sis Science’ and Fitness Doping: Ethnopharmacology, Gender and Risk

’I’m quite tired of people saying that I don’t do enough or know anything’: male hegemony and resistance in the context of women’s online communication on doping