Pain and injury in sport : social and ethical analysis

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Pain and injury in sport : social and ethical analysis

edited by Sigmund Loland, Berit Skirstad and Ivan Waddington

(Ethics and sport)

Routledge, 2006

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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For elite athletes, pain and injury are normal. In a challenge to the orthodox medical model, this book makes it clear that pain and injury cannot be understood in terms of physiology alone, and examines the influence of social and cultural processes on how athletes experience pain and injury. It raises a series of key social and ethical questions about the culture of 'playing hurt', the role of coaches and medical staff, the deliberate infliction of pain in sport, and the use of drugs. This book begins by providing three different perspectives on the topic of pain and injury in sport, and goes on to discuss: * pain, injury and performance * the deliberate infliction of pain and injury * the management of pain and injury * the meaning of pain and injury.

Table of Contents

Section I: Pain and Injury in Sports: Three Overviews 1. The Sociology of Pain and Injury in Sport: Main Perspectives and Problems 2. Sport and the Psychology of Pain 3. Three Approaches to the Study of Pain in Sport Section II: Pain, Injury and Performance 4. The Place of Pain in Running 5. Pains and Strains on the Ice: Some thoughts on the Physical and Mental Struggles of Polar Adventurers 6. Injured Female Athletes: Experiential Accounts from England and Canada Section III: The Deliberate Infliction of Pain and Injury 7. Sport and the Systematic Infliction of Pain: a Case Study of State Sponsored Mandatory Doping in East Germany 8. Pain and Injury in Boxing: The Medical Profession Divided 9. The Intentional Infliction of Pain in Sport: Ethical Perspectives Section IV: The Management of Pain and Injury 10. Sports Medicine: A Very Peculiar Practice? Doctors and Physiotherapists in Elite English Rugby Union 11. Ethical Problems in the Medical Management of Sports Injuries: a Case Study of English Professional Football 12. The Ontology of Sports Injuries and Professional Medical Ethics 13. The Role of Injury in the Organization of Paralympic Sport Section V: The Meaning of Pain and Injury 14. Suffering in and for Sport: Some Philosophical Remarks on a Painful Emotion 15. Pain, Suffering and Paradox in Sport and Religion

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