Sport, technology and the body [ the nature of performance
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 technolo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London;New York :
Routledge ,
c2009
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on print version record |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 187 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p 163-180) and index |
| ISBN: | 0203099389 (electronic bk.) 9780203099384 (electronic bk.) 9780415378772 |