Sport, Professionalism and Pain: Ethnographies of Injury and Risk

by P. David Howe and David Howe

Are pain and injury managed appropriately in the environment of professional sport?
Is sports medicine a tool to empower or to disempower athletes?

David Howe considers these and other pertinent concerns and questions whether, in the world of modern sport, it is the participants themselves or the sport's administrators who exert more control over athletes' well being. Exploring the historical transformation of sports medicine and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415247292
• ISBN13: 9780415247290
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.5"