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

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Summary

This exciting study explores ethical dilemmas in the relationship between sporting performance, sports medicine and the health of the athlete.

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Introduction
Sports Medicine: Pain and Injury in Context
Investigating Sports Medicine: Medical Anthropology in Context
Sporting Bodies: Mortal Engines
Pain and Injury: Signal and Response
Professionalism and Commercialism and the Culture of Risk
How Professional Attitude Commercialises Sport
The Importance of Injury in the Commercialised World of Sport
Risk Culture as 'a Product'
Theory into Practice
Distinctive Community: The Welsh Rugby Club
At Any Cost: Success in Athletics
Bodily Dysfunction: The Paralympics as an Arena for Risk
Afterward
Conclusions
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