Sport, Medicine and Health: The Medicalization of Sport?

by Dominic Malcolm

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138826456
• ISBN13: 9781138826458
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"