Sport, Professionalism and Pain: Ethnographies of Injury and Risk

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Routledge, 2 sept. 2003 - 240 pages

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.

 

Table des matières

Introduction
1
sports medicine and the commercial body
10
Part II Pain injury and the culture of risk
70
Part III Theory into practice
125
Conclusion
178
amendments to the laws of the game to be implemented in the Northern Hemisphere from 1 September 1996
187
amendments to the laws of the game effective as of 4 November 1996
189
Appendix III Highrisk situations in rugby union
193
Appendix IV Pain relief
196
Appendix V Contents of the medical kitbag as used at Valley RFC
197
Notes
198
Bibliography
203
Index
221
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Prof. David Howe is a Senior Lecturer in the Anthropology of Sport in the School of Sport and Leisure at the University of Gloucestershire.

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