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Electronic text data |
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ix, 187 pages ; 25 cm |
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Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction : sport, the body and performance technology -- 2. The nature of sport -- 3. The nature of the body -- 4. The nature of performance -- 5. The nature of health -- 6. 'Those girls with sideburns' : enhancing the female body -- 7. Enhancing the body from without : artificial skins and other prosthetics -- 8. Drugs, sport and Australian identity -- 9. The performance of nature at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games -- 10. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"What is the nature of athletic performance? This book offers an answer to this fascinating question by considering the relationship between sport, technology and the body. Specifically, it examines cultural resistance to the enhancement of athletes and explores the ways in which performance technologies complicate and confound our conception of the sporting body." "Sport, Technology and the Body offers a powerful challenge to conventional views of athletic performance that stand authenticity against artifice, integrity against corruption, and athletic purity against technological intrusion. It is essential reading for all serious students of the sociology, culture or ethics of sport."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-180) and index |
| Notes |
Mode of access: World Wide Web(viewed January 17, 2011) |
| Subject |
Human body -- Social aspects.
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Sports -- Sociological aspects.
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Sports -- Physiological aspects.
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Sports -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Sports sciences.
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Athletes -- Training of.
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Performance technology.
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Body image.
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| LC no. |
2008016085 |
| ISBN |
9780415378772 hardback |
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9780415378765 paperback |
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9780203099384 ebook |
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