Sport, Professionalism and Pain - Ethnographies of Injury and Risk (Hardcover, annotated edition)

Contents:
Introduction Part One: Sports Medicine: Pain and Injury in Context 1. Investigating Sports Medicine: Medical Anthropology in Context 2. Amateur Pastime to Professional Specticle 3. Sporting Bodies: mortal engines Part Two: Pain, Injury and the Culture of Risk 4. Pain and Injury: signal and response 5. The Importance of Injury in the Commercialised World of Sport 6. Risk Culture as ' a Product' Part Three: Theory into Practice 7. Distinctive Community: The Welsh Rugby Club 8. Elite Distance Runners 9. Bodily Dysfunction: The Paralympics as an Arena for Risk 10. Conclusions