1st Edition
Sport, Medicine and Health The medicalization of sport?
By Dominic Malcolm
Copyright 2017
222 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
222 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The relationship between sport, medicine and health in our society is becoming increasingly complex. This important and timely study explores this relationship through an analysis of changing political economies, altered perceptions of the body and science’s developing contribution to the human condition. Surveying the various ways in which medicine interacts with the world of sport, it examines... Read more
- Sport, Medicine and Health: An Introduction
- Medicine, Health and Sport: Processes and Principles
- The Development of Sports Medicine
- Sport, Medicine and Public Health
- Medicalization, Injury and the Exercising Public
- Is Exercise Medicine? The Lived Experience of Physical Activity in Healthcare
- Sports Medicine as Occupation Medicine
- The Practice of ‘Elite’ Sports Medicine
- The Medicalization of Concussion
- Medicalization and Cardiac Screening
- Conclusion: The Medicalization of Sport
Biography
Dominic Malcolm is a Reader in the Sociology of Sport at Loughborough University, UK
