The Palgrave Handbook of Sport, Politics and Harm 1st edition

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Product details:

• ISBN 10: 3030728269
• ISBN 13:9783030728267
• Author: Stephen Wagg,Allyson M. Pollock 

Table contents:

Part I. Bodily Damage and Pre- and Early Industrial Sport

1. The Perils of Rewarding Toughness: Honor, Injury, and Death in the Athletics of the Ancient World
2. ‘Beastly Furie, and Exstreme Violence’: Pain, Injury and Death Resulting from Football and Other Ball Games Played in the British Isles Before the Reformation
3. Violence, Injury and the Politics of the Evolving Football Codes
4. “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

1. Inflaming the Civic Temper: Progress, Violence, and Concussion in Early American Football
2. A Problem that Cries Out for Standards: Football Helmets, Conceptions of Risk, and the National Commission on Product Safety, 1961–1970
3. Lights Out: Concussion Research, the National Football League, and Employer Duty of Care
4. Race and Injury in American Football

Part III. Sporting Females, Sexuality, and the Politics of Injury

1. Injury at the Extreme: Alison Hargreaves, Mountaineering and Motherhood
2. Gendered Bodies, Gendered Injuries
3. The Not So Glamorous World of Women’s Wrestling
4. Pride, Prejudice and Death: The Emile Griffith Story

Part IV. Sport as Transport: Horse, Cycle, and Motor Racing and the Politics of Safety

1. Runners, Riders and Risk: Safety Issues in the History of Horseracing
2. ‘Dishing Out the Pain’ in Professional Cycling
3. 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

1. The Death of Jordan McNair: The Inevitability of the Avoidable Life-Threatening Injury
2. From Body Snatchers to Brain Banks: The Cadaver as Commodity and the Sports-Concussion “Crisis”
3. On the Frontlines: Black Boys and Injury in Basketball
4. All Power to Your Elbow? Injury in US Baseball and the Politics of ‘Tommy John Surgery’
5. Is Injury “On Brand”? Examining the Contexts of the CrossFit Injury Connection
6. ‘This Must Be Done Right, So We Don’t Lose the Income’: Medical Care and Commercial Imperatives in Mixed Martial Arts
7. Vanguards on the Starting Line: Race, Work, and Dissent in Sport Dystopian Films from Rollerball to The Hunger Game

Part VI. Sport and Injury: Case Studies

1. Injury and Olympics Politics, 1896–1988
2. 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
3. The Cricket Pitch as “Unsafe Workplace”: Sports Culture and the Death of Phillip Hughes
4. Muhammad Ali, Sport Celebrity, and Perceptions of Parkinson’s Disease
5. ‘Snipers Stop Play’: The Israeli Defence Force and the Shooting of Palestinian Footballers

Part VII. Sport, Harm, and the Politics of Wellbeing

1. The Politics of Safeguarding and Protecting Children in Sport in England
2. Sidelined: Boys, Sport, and Depression
3. Injuries in Schools’ Rugby: Occasional Niggles and Scrapes?

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