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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| Language: | English |
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London;New York :
Routledge ,
c2009
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 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