Body Factory : Exploiting University Athletes' Healthcare for Profit in the Training Room.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pericak, Kaitlin.

Series:

Sporting Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College sports.

Sports medicine.

Genre:

Case studies

Physical Description:

1 online resource (158 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2025.

Summary:

A university's athletic training room is meant to care for and heal college athletes and ensure they are receiving the help they need. Although sports medicine staff members are sincere in their goal of centering athletes and providing the best healthcare possible, organizational constraints affect their approach. Chief among them is the pressure sports medicine staff members feel to keep athletes from profit-generating sports healthy enough to perform. Body Factory enters an NCAA Division I athletic training room to examine the disconnect between what the NCAA states as its goal of athlete healthcare and what is actually happening. Kaitlin Pericak conducts observations in this space and interviews injured athletes and sports medicine staff members to show how institutional control over "best interests" often ends up exploiting the individual athlete. The influences at work are part of a neoliberal paradigm that explains why interest in an athlete's care is greatly diminished once they are injured and can no longer play. Body Factory considers how race, gender, and health before and after injury are deciding factors in these university training centers. The bureaucratic organization has a goal of maintaining power to generate profit, and Pericak shows this is almost always at the expense of the athlete.

Contents:

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. College Athlete Healthcare

2. The Organization of NLU’s Athletic Training Center

3. In-House Care

4. Sense-Making in the ATC

5. The Gendered Nature of Healthcare in Big-Time College Sport

6. The Racialized Nature of Healthcare in Big-Time College Sport

7. Intersectional Experiences in College Athlete Healthcare

8. Recognition of Injury

9. Uncertainty of Injury

10. Mobilizing Resources for Injury

Conclusion

Appendixes

References

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ISBN:

9781439924952

1439924953

OCLC:

1454581896