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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.