Full Description
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 the changing practices and purposes of sports medicine today.
Drawing on the latest research in the sociology of sport, this book investigates the scientific discourse underlying the promotion of physical activity to reveal the political context in which medical knowledge and public policies emerge. It considers the incongruities between these policies and their attempts to regulate the supply of and demand for sports medicine. Through a series of original case studies, this book exposes the social construction of sports medical knowledge and questions the potential for medicine to influence athletes' well-being both positively and negatively.
Sport, Medicine and Health: The medicalization of sport? provides valuable insights for all students and scholars interested in sports medicine, sports policy, public health and the sociology of sport.
Contents
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
