Regulating bodies : elite sport policies and their unintended consequences / Jaime Schultz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schultz, Jaime, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Professional sports--Rules--Social aspects.

Professional sports.

Professional sports--Safety measures--Social aspects.

Athletes--Health and hygiene.

Athletes.

Sports--Physiological aspects.

Sports.

Physical Description:

xviii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Elite sport policies and their unintended consequences

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"This book is about protection in elite sport. More specifically, it is about protective policies that regulate athletes' bodies by biocultural categories-age, weight, sex, impairment, "natural," and "enhanced" (doped). These categories are, at once, scientifically oriented and socially constructed. What seem to be obvious, organic, and quantifiable ways of measuring variations of human diversity are, in effect, historically and contextually specific constructs, dependent upon systems of measurement, methods of analysis, and the motivations of people who create and sustain them. What appear to be biological characteristics only manifest under the cultural conditions by which they are determined and made meaningful. One's age depends on the way one marks time. One's weight depends upon the manner of scale. One's impairment (disability) status requires meeting socially-constructed standards. Even more, competition classes based on age, weight, and impairment are demarcated by manufactured limits or "cut points" that change over time and place. So, too, do conceptions of "natural" and "doped," of what we prohibit and permit in elite sport"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Regulating weight

Regulating sex

Regulating impairment

Regulating dope

Regulating genetics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0197616496

9780197616499

OCLC:

1395538403