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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Main Author: Magdalinski, Tara (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London;New York : Routledge , c2009
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300 |a 1 online resource (ix, 187 p.) 
500 |a Description based on print version record 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p 163-180) and index 
505 0 |a 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 -- 
520 |a 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. 
650 0 |a Athletes   |x Training of 
650 0 |a Body image 
650 0 |a Human body   |x Social aspects 
650 0 |a Performance technology 
650 0 |a Sports sciences 
650 0 |a Sports   |x Moral and ethical aspects 
650 0 |a Sports   |x Physiological aspects 
650 0 |a Sports   |x Sociological aspects 
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