Sociocultural examinations of sports concussions / edited by Matt Ventresca and Mary G. McDonald.
2020
RC394.C7 S63 2020eb
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Sociocultural examinations of sports concussions / edited by Matt Ventresca and Mary G. McDonald.
ISBN
9780429028175 (electronic book)
0429028172 (electronic book)
0429643020 (electronic book)
9780429639852 (electronic book)
0429639856 (electronic book)
9780429636684 (electronic book)
0429636687 (electronic book)
9780429643026 (electronic book)
9780367134501 (hardcover)
0429028172 (electronic book)
0429643020 (electronic book)
9780429639852 (electronic book)
0429639856 (electronic book)
9780429636684 (electronic book)
0429636687 (electronic book)
9780429643026 (electronic book)
9780367134501 (hardcover)
Published
New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Copyright
©2020
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 197 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
RC394.C7 S63 2020eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
617.4/81044
Summary
"Sport's "concussion crisis" has been characterized by controversial scientific discoveries, athlete suicides, and high profile lawsuits involving professional sports leagues, while provoking widespread media coverage, changes to game rules, and debate about the future of many popular sports. Sociocultural Examinations of Sports Concussion is the first edited collection to bring together multiple sociocultural perspectives on sports concussion that interrogate the social, economic, political, and historical forces shaping the cultural impacts of these injuries. Each of the ten chapters move beyond biomedical or neuroscientific paradigms to critically examine a specific intersection of sociocultural factors influencing public perceptions about concussion or athlete experiences of brain injury. These include analyses of media and advertising, medical treatment and diagnostic protocols, gender and masculinity, developments in equipment and scientific models, economics and labor politics, understandings of trauma and recovery, public health philosophies and disciplinary differences in framing the ontologies of concussion. Drawing from a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, Sociocultural Examinations of Sports Concussion offers a diverse set of analyses examining brain injuries as cultural and embodied phenomena affecting more than just athletes' brains, but also embedded within and (re)shaping meanings, identities, and social contexts. It is valuable reading for graduate students and researchers interested in the experience and treatment of sports concussion, sport sociology, and sports technology"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Routledge research in sport and exercise science.
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