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Game Changer : The Technoscientific Revolution in Sports /

We like to think of sports as elemental: strong bodies trained to overcome height, weight, distance; the thrill of earned victory or the agony of defeat in a contest decided on a level playing field. But in Game Changer, Rayvon Fouche argues that sports have been radically shaped by an explosion of...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Fouche, Rayvon, 1969- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2017]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : sports, bodies, and technoscience
  • Black is the new fast : swimsuit technoscience and the recalibration of elite swimming
  • Gearing up for the game : equipment as a shaper of sport
  • Disabled, superabled, or normal : Oscar Pistorius and physical augmentation
  • "I know one when I see one" : sport and sex identification in an age of gender mutability
  • The parable of a cancer Jesus : Lance Armstrong and the failure of direct drug testing
  • "May I see your passport?" : the athlete biological passport as a technology of control
  • Conclusion : body/motor/machine : the future of technology and sport.