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Sport, Professionalism and Pain
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ISBN-13:
9780415247290
Veröffentl:
2003
Erscheinungsdatum:
04.12.2003
Seiten:
240
Autor:
David Howe
Gewicht:
482 g
Format:
236x159x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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
Are pain and injury managed appropriately in the environment of professional sport?Is sports medicine a tool to empower or to disempower athletes?