Sport, Professionalism and Pain - David Howe

Sport, Professionalism and Pain

Ethnographies of Injury and Risk

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2003
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-24730-6 (ISBN)
59,80 inkl. MwSt
This exciting study explores ethical dilemmas in the relationship between sporting performance, sports medicine and the health of the athlete.
Are pain and injury managed appropriately in the environment of professional sport?
Is sports medicine a tool to empower or to disempower athletes?

David Howe considers these and other pertinent concerns and questions whether, in the world of modern sport, it is the participants themselves or the sport's administrators who exert more control over athletes' well being. Exploring the historical transformation of sports medicine and the relationships between medicine, body and culture, Sport, Professionalism and Pain bridges a perceived space in the literature between medical anthropology, medical sociology and sport studies.

Prof. David Howe is a Senior Lecturer in the Anthropology of Sport in the School of Sport and Leisure at the University of Gloucestershire.

Introduction Part One: Sports Medicine: Pain and Injury in Context 1. Investigating Sports Medicine: Medical Anthropology in Context 2. Sporting Bodies: Mortal Engines 3. Pain and Injury: Signal and Response Part Two: Professionalism and Commercialism and the Culture of Risk 4. How Professional Attitude Commercialises Sport 5. The Importance of Injury in the Commercialised World of Sport 6. Risk Culture as 'a Product' Part Three: Theory into Practice 7. Distinctive Community: The Welsh Rugby Club 8. At Any Cost: Success in Athletics 9. Bodily Dysfunction: The Paralympics as an Arena for Risk Afterward Part Four: Conclusions

Erscheint lt. Verlag 18.12.2003
Reihe/Serie Ethics and Sport
Zusatzinfo 5 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 440 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport
Studium 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Allgemeines / Lexika
Weitere Fachgebiete Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-415-24730-6 / 0415247306
ISBN-13 978-0-415-24730-6 / 9780415247306
Zustand Neuware
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