Sporting bodies, damaged selves : sociological studies of sports-related injury /
edited by Kevin Young
- 1st ed.
- Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2004
- xx, 372 p. ; 24 cm.
- Research in the sociology of sport, v. 2 1476-2854 ; .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Introduction: Sports-related pain and injury: sociological notes / Kevin Young -- pt. 1. Pain cultures. Sport and risk culture / Peter Donnelly -- The politics of sports injury: hierarchy, power, and the pain principle / Donald Sabo -- Cultural, structural and status dimensions of pain and injury experiences in sport / Howard L. Nixon -- Professional athletes' injuries: from existential to organisational analyses / Joseph A. Kotarba -- Weight management as sport injury: deconstructing disciplinary power in the sport ethic / David P. Johns -- pt. 2. Pain zones. English professional soccer players and the uncertainties of injury / Martin Roderick -- Risk, pain and injury:'a natural thing in rowing'? / Elizabeth C.J. Pike -- Why English female university athletes play with pain: motivations and rationalisations / Hannah Charlesworth and Kevin Young -- Normalising risk in the sport of cycling / Edward Albert -- Scars on the body: the risk management and self-care of injured female handball players in Denmark / Lone F. Thing -- Risk and injury: a comparison of football and rodeo subcultures / James H. Frey, Frederick W. Preston, and Bo J. Bernhard -- Risk and injury in a youth recreational basketball league / Rhonda L. Singer -- Welsh rugby union: pain, injury and medical treatment in a professional era / P. David Howe -- pt. 3. Pain parameters. Athletic trainers: between care and social control / Stephan R. Walk -- Negotiating with risk: exploring the role of the sports medicine clinician / Parissa Safai -- Sport, health and public policy / Ivan Waddington -- The costs of injury from sport, exercise and physical activity: a review of the evidence / Philip White -- The role of the courts in sports injury / Kevin Young