Sport, professionalism, and pain : ethnographies of injury and risk / P. David Howe.
By: Howe, P. David.
Material type: BookSeries: Ethics and sport.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004Description: xii, 222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0415247306 (pbk.); 0415247292 (hbk.).Subject(s): Sports medicine | Sports medicine -- Miscellanea | Sports -- Moral and ethical aspects | Medical anthropology | Sports -- Social aspects | Professionalism in sportsDDC classification: 617.1027Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 617.1027 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00079124 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction
- Part 1 Sports Medicine: Pain and Injury in Context
- 1 Investigating Sports Medicine: Medical Anthropology in Context
- 2 Amateur Pastime to Professional Specticle
- 3 Sporting Bodies: mortal engines Part Two: Pain, Injury and the Culture of Risk
- 4 Pain and Injury: signal and response
- 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 Elite Distance Runners
- 9 Bodily Dysfunction: The Paralympics as an Arena for Risk
- 10 Conclusions