Sport, injury and the culture of risk / David Howe.
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TextPublisher: London : Routledge, 2002Description: 288 p. ; 24cmSubject(s): DDC classification: - 306.483 21
Partial contents:
The cultural nexus: sports medicine and the commercial body. Investigating sports medicine: medical anthropology in context ; Amateur pastime to professional spectacle ; Sporting bodies: mortal engines -- Pain, injury and the culture of risk. Pain and injury: signal and response ; The importance of injury in the commercialized world of sport ; Risk culture as 'product' -- Theory into practice. Distinctive community: the Welsh rugby club ; Elite distance runners ; Bodily dysfunction: the Paralympics as an arena for risk -- Conclusion.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 306.483 HOW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A289671B |
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| 306.483 FAL Fallen sports heroes, media, & celebrity culture / | 306.483 GLO Globalization and sport : playing the world / | 306.483 HOR Sport in consumer culture / | 306.483 HOW Sport, injury and the culture of risk / | 306.483 HUG The uses of sport : a critical study / | 306.483 LEV Leveraging legacies from sports mega-events : concepts and cases / | 306.483 PER Barbaric sport : a global plague / |
The cultural nexus: sports medicine and the commercial body. Investigating sports medicine: medical anthropology in context ; Amateur pastime to professional spectacle ; Sporting bodies: mortal engines -- Pain, injury and the culture of risk. Pain and injury: signal and response ; The importance of injury in the commercialized world of sport ; Risk culture as 'product' -- Theory into practice. Distinctive community: the Welsh rugby club ; Elite distance runners ; Bodily dysfunction: the Paralympics as an arena for risk -- Conclusion.
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