Sport, Professionalism and Pain : Ethnographies of Injury and Risk - Ethics and Sport

Hardback (04 Dec 2003)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780415247290
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	04 Dec 2003
DEWEY:	306.483
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	288
Weight:	499g
Height:	234mm
Width:	156mm
Spine width:	13mm