Part I. Bodily damage and pre- and early industrial sport. The perils of rewarding toughness : honor, injury, and death in the athletics of the ancient world
'Beastly furie, and exstreme violence' : pain, injury and death resulting from football and other ball games played in the British Isles before the reformation
Violence, injury and the politics of the evolving football codes
"Though he was evidently suffering great pain, he bore it well" : public discourse on benefits, risk, and injury in North American wrestling, 1880 to 1914
Part II. The NFL : politics, injury and American national identity. Inflaming the civic temper : progress, violence, and concussion in early American football
A problem that cries out for standards : football helmets, conceptions of risk, and the National Commission on Product Safety, 1961-1970
Lights out : concussion research, the National Football League, and employer duty of care
Race and injury in American football
Part III. Sporting females, sexuality, and the politics of injury. Injury at the extreme : Alison Hargreaves, mountaineering and motherhood
Gendered bodies, gendered injuries
The not so glamorous world of women's wrestling
Pride, prejudice and death : the Emile Griffith story
Part IV. Sport as transport : horse, cycle and motor racing and the politics of safety. Runners, riders and risk : safety issues in the history of horseracing
'Dishing out the pain' in professional cycling
It was ironic that he should die in bed : injury, death and the politics of safety in the history of motor racing
Part V. Sport, injury, and the culture of late capitalism. The death of Jordan McNair : the inevitability of the avoidable life-threatening injury
From body snatchers to brain banks : the cadaver as commodity and the sports-concussion "crisis"
On the frontlines : Black boys and injury in basketball
All power to your elbow? Injury in US baseball and the politics of 'Tommy John Surgery'
Is injury "on brand"? Examining the contexts of the CrossFit injury connection
'This must be done right, so we don't lose the income' : medical care and commercial imperatives in mixed martial arts
Vanguards on the starting line : race, work, and dissent in sport dystopian films from Rollerball to The hunger games
Part VI. Sport and injury : case studies. Injury and Olympics politics, 1896-1988
Fits and starts : re-examining the mystery of Brazil's Ronaldo and the rumours swirling around his controversial role in the World Cup final of 1998
The cricket pitch as "unsafe workplace" : sports culture and the death of Phillip Hughes
Muhammad Ali, sport celebrity, and perceptions of Parkinson's disease
'Snipers stop play' : the Israeli Defence Force and the shooting of Palestinian footballers
Part VII. Sport, harm, and the politics of wellbeing
The politics of safeguarding and protecting children in sport in England
Sidelined : boys, sport, and depression
Injuries in schools' rugby : occasional niggles and scrapes?.