TY  - BOOK
AU  - Magdalinski,Tara
TI  - Sport, technology and the body: the nature of performance 
SN  - 041537877X
AV  - GV706.5 .M33 2009
U1  - 796.01 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Sports
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Physiological aspects
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Sports sciences
KW  - Athletes
KW  - Training of
KW  - Performance technology
KW  - Body image
KW  - Human body
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-180) and index; 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
N2  - "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
ER  -