In: Springer eBook Collection
Introduction -- Part 1 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 2 The NFL: Politics, Injury and American National Identity' -- 5 Inflaming the Civic Temper: Progress, Violence, and Concussion in Early American Football -- 6 A Problem That Cries Out For Standards: Football Helmets, Conceptions of Risk, and the National Commission on Product Safety, 1961-1970 -- 7 Lights Out: Concussion Research, the National Football League, and Employer Duty of Care -- 8 Race and Injury in American Football -- Part 3 Sporting Females, Sexuality and the Politics of Injury -- 9 Injury at the Extreme: Alison Hargreaves, Mountaineering and Motherhood -- 10 Gendered Bodies, Gendered Injuries -- 11 The Not So Glamorous World of Women's Wrestling -- 12 Pride, Prejudice and Death: The Emile Griffiths Story -- Part 4 Sport as Transport: Horse, Cycle and Motor Racing and the Politics of Safety -- 13 Runners, Riders and Risk: Safety Issues in the History of Horseracing -- 14 "Dishing out the pain" in professional cycling -- 15 It Was Ironic That He Should Die in Bed: Injury, Death and the Politics of Safety in the History of Motor Racing -- Part 5 Sport, Injury and the Culture of Late Capitalism -- 16 The Death of Jordan McNair: The Inevitability of the Avoidable Life-Threatening Injury -- 17 From Body Snatchers to Brain Banks: The Cadaver as Commodity and the Sports-Concussion "Crisis" -- 18 On the Front Lines: Black Boys and Injury in Basketball -- 19 All Power to Your Elbow? Injury in US Baseball and the Politics of 'Tommy John Surgery' -- 20 Is Injury "On Brand"? Examining the Contexts of the CrossFit Injury Connection -- 21 'This must be done right, so we don't lose the income': Medical care and commercial imperatives in mixed martial arts -- 22 Vanguards on The Starting Line: Race, Work, and Dissent in Sport Dystopian films from Rollerball to The Hunger Games -- Part 6: Sport and Injury – Case Studies -- 23 Injury and Olympics Politics, 1896-1988 -- 24 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 -- 25 The Cricket Pitch as 'Unsafe Workplace': Sports Culture and the Death of Phillip Hughes -- 26 Muhammad Ali, Sport Celebrity and Perceptions of Parkinson's Disease -- 27 'Snipers Stop Play': The Israeli Defence Force and the Shooting of Palestinian Footballers -- Part 7 Sport, Harm and the Politics of Wellbeing -- 28 The politics of safeguarding and protecting children in sport in England -- 29 Sidelined: Boys, Sport, and Depression -- 30 Injuries in Schools' Rugby: Occasional Niggles and Scrapes?.
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