1st Edition
The Social Organization of Sports Medicine Critical Socio-Cultural Perspectives
1. Introduction: The Social Science of Sports Medicine Dominic Malcolm and Parissa Safai Part I: Sports Medicine Conceived 2. The Role of Physiology and Cardiology in the Founding and Early Years of the American College of Sports Medicine Jack W. Berryman 3. From Voluntarism to Specialization: Sports Medicine and the British Association of Sport and Medicine Neil Carter 4. From Rehabilitation Patients to Rehabilitating Athletes: Searching for a History of Sports Medicine for Athletes with Disabilities Fred Mason Part II: Sports Medicine Organized 5. Women Professional Athletes’ Injury Care: The Case of Women’s Football Joseph A. Kotarba 6. Public Health, Elite Sport and "Risky Behaviours" at the Canada Winter Games Victoria Paraschak 7. The Benefits and Challenges of Complementary and Alternative Medicines for Health-Care in Sport Elizabeth C.J. Pike 8. Challenges to the Implementation of a Rationalized Model of Sports Medicine: An Analysis in the Canadian Context Nancy Theberge Part III: Sports Medicine Practices 9. Docile Bodies or Reflexive Users? On the Individualization of Medical Risk in Sports Lone Friis Thing 10. Sports Medicine, Client Control and the Limits of Professional Autonomy Ivan Waddington 11. Making Compromises in Sports Medicine: An Examination of the Health-Performance Nexus in British Olympic Sports Andrea Scott 12. Sports Physicians and Doping: Medical Ethics and Elite Performance John Hoberman Part IV: Sports and Medicine Contested 13. Doctors Without Degrees Michael Atkinson 14. Pre-Participation Screenings in Sports: A Review of Current Genetic/Non-Genetic Test Strategies Arno Müller 15. Sports Medicine Beyond Therapy: Genetic Doping and Enhancement Yoshitaka Kondo and Mike McNamee
Biography
Dominic Malcolm is Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport at Loughborough University.
Parissa Safai is Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science at York University.
