Sport, technology and the body : the nature of performance / Tara Magdalinski.

By:

Magdalinski, Tara [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009Description: ix, 187 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

041537877X
9780415378772
0415378761
9780415378765

Other title:

Prepublication title : Performance technologies : Reading athletic enhancement

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

796.01 22

LOC classification:

GV706.5 .M33 2009

Contents:

1. Introduction: Sport, the Body and Performance Technology -- 2. The Nature of Sport -- 3. The Nature of the Body -- 4. The Nature of Performance -- 5. The Nature of Health -- 6. 'Those Girls with Sideburns': Enhancing the Female Body -- 7. Enhancing the Body from Without: Artificial Skins and Other Prosthetics -- 8. Drugs, Sport and Australian Identity -- 9. The Performance of Nature at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games -- 10. Conclusion.

Summary: "What is the nature of athletic performance? This book offers an answer to this fascinating question by considering the relationship between sport, technology and the body. Specifically, it examines cultural resistance to the enhancement of athletes and explores the ways in which performance technologies complicate and confound our conception of the sporting body. The book addresses concerns about the technological "invasion" of the "natural" body to investigate expectations that athletic performances reflect nothing more than the actual capacity of the untainted athlete. By examining a series of case studies, including Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, Fastskin swimsuits, hypoxic chambers and an array of illicit substances and methods, the book distinguishes between internal and external technologies to highlight the ways that performance enhancement, and public reaction to it, can be read. Sport, Technology and the Body offers a powerful challenge to conventional views of athletic performance that stand authenticity against artifice, integrity against corruption, and athletic purity against technological intrusion. It is essential reading for all serious students of the sociology, culture or ethics of sport."--Publisher's website.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-180) and index.

"What is the nature of athletic performance? This book offers an answer to this fascinating question by considering the relationship between sport, technology and the body. Specifically, it examines cultural resistance to the enhancement of athletes and explores the ways in which performance technologies complicate and confound our conception of the sporting body. The book addresses concerns about the technological "invasion" of the "natural" body to investigate expectations that athletic performances reflect nothing more than the actual capacity of the untainted athlete. By examining a series of case studies, including Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, Fastskin swimsuits, hypoxic chambers and an array of illicit substances and methods, the book distinguishes between internal and external technologies to highlight the ways that performance enhancement, and public reaction to it, can be read. Sport, Technology and the Body offers a powerful challenge to conventional views of athletic performance that stand authenticity against artifice, integrity against corruption, and athletic purity against technological intrusion. It is essential reading for all serious students of the sociology, culture or ethics of sport."--Publisher's website.

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