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The suffering body in sport : shifting thresholds of pain, risk and injury /

Table of Contents: “…Prelims -- Introduction -- Sport and risk culture -- The rationalization of healthcare in modern sport: from policy to practice -- Risk in lifestyle sports: the case of parkour -- An enduring event: 20 years of one athlete's negotiation with pain at the Ironman Triathlon World Championships -- Injury, pain and risk in the paralympic movement -- Sports-related brain injury: concussion and chronic traumatic encephalopathy -- Going public with pain: athlete stories of disordered eating in discourse -- Suffering in sport -- Complexities in Canadian legal approaches to sports injury -- Regulating the harmful, injurious and risky business of professional wrestling -- When the athletic body fades: sporting exit and identity transitions -- Index.…”
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