Sport, technology and the body : the nature of performance

Publication Data

• Title Sport, technology and the body : the nature of performance
• Author Tara Magdalinski
• Publisher Routledge
• Publication date 2009
• Publication location London
• Language English

Contents

Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
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
Bibliography
Index.

Topics

• Sports :: Sociological aspects
• Sports :: Physiological aspects
• Sports :: Moral and ethical aspects
• Sports sciences
• Athletes :: Training of
• Performance technology
• Body image
• 013487609

Sport, technology and the body : the nature of performance by Tara Magdalinski. ISBN 9780203099384. Published by Routledge in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.