The suffering body in sport : shifting thresholds of pain, risk and injury

Public awareness of and sensitivity to questions of pain, risk and injury in sport is more acute than ever before. Whether it is questions of what sport (and fans) can realistically and responsibly expect of athletes, how revered practices almost inevitably culminate in suffering bodies, or the wide...

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Other Authors Young, Kevin (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
SeriesResearch in the sociology of sport ; v. 12.
Subjects
Sports injuries > Social aspects.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781787560680
9781787560703
ISSN1476-2854 ;
DOI10.1108/S1476-2854201912
Physical Description1 online resource (xi, 202 pages) ; cm.

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Table of Contents:
  • Prelims
  • Introduction
  • Sport and risk culture
  • The rationalization of healthcare in modern sport: from policy to practice
  • Risk in lifestyle sports: the case of parkour
  • An enduring event: 20 years of one athlete's negotiation with pain at the Ironman Triathlon World Championships
  • Injury, pain and risk in the paralympic movement
  • Sports-related brain injury: concussion and chronic traumatic encephalopathy
  • Going public with pain: athlete stories of disordered eating in discourse
  • Suffering in sport
  • Complexities in Canadian legal approaches to sports injury
  • Regulating the harmful, injurious and risky business of professional wrestling
  • When the athletic body fades: sporting exit and identity transitions
  • Index.

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