Ben Cousins and the ‘double life’: exploring citizenship and the voluntarity/compulsivity binary through the experiences of a ‘drug addicted’ elite athlete

Contemporary neo-liberal public health discourse is increasingly drawn to the language of 'addiction'. Disease models of addiction are mobilised to account for an expanding array of problematised activities, from the familiar smoking and drinking to newer candidates, such as overeating and...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Seear, K., Fraser, Suzanne
Format: Journal Article
Published: Routledge 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/48400