The Suffering Body in Sport : Shifting Thresholds of Pain, Risk and Injury / edited by Kevin Young.

Contributor(s):

Young, Kevin, 1959- [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Research in the sociology of sport ; v. 12.Publisher: Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xi, 202 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781787560680
1787560686
9781787560703
1787560708

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Suffering Body in Sport.DDC classification:

617.1027 23

LOC classification:

RC1210 .S84 2019eb

NLM classification:

QT 261

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Contents:

Introduction / Kevin Young -- Sport and Risk Culture / Michael Atkinson -- The Rationalisation of Healthcare in Modern Sport : from Policy to Practice / Andrea Scott-Bell -- Risk in Lifestyle Sports : The Case of Parkour / Jeffrey Kidder -- An Enduring Event : 20 Years of one Athlete's Negotiation with Pain at the Ironman Triathlon World Championships / Scott Tinley -- Injury, Pain and Risk in the Paralympic Movement / Andrea Bundon -- Sports-Related Brain Injury : Concussion and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy / Katie Liston And Dominic Malcolm -- Going Public with Pain : Athlete Stories of Disordered Eating in Discourse / Kerry Mcgannon -- Suffering in Sport / Kristina Smith -- Complexities in Canadian Legal Approaches to Sports Injury / Martine Dennie and Kevin Young -- Regulating the Harmful, Injurious and Risky Business of Professional Wrestling / Karen Corteen -- When the Athletic Body Fades : Sporting Exit and Identity Transitions / Sarah Gairdner.

Summary: This volume approaches the study of pain, risk and injury in sport from a variety of social scientific perspectives. Contributions focus on the manifestations of pain, risk and injury within sport cultures, and the degree to which the research is rapidly expanding to include new ways of thinking about risky and painful 'suffering' in sport.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This volume approaches the study of pain, risk and injury in sport from a variety of social scientific perspectives. Contributions focus on the manifestations of pain, risk and injury within sport cultures, and the degree to which the research is rapidly expanding to include new ways of thinking about risky and painful 'suffering' in sport.

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