Pain and Injury in Sport: Social and Ethical Analysis (Ethics and Sport)

For elite athletes, pain and injury are normal. In a challenge to the orthodox medical model, this book makes it clear that pain and injury cannot be understood in terms of physiology alone, and examines the influence of social and cultural processes on how athletes experience pain and injury. It raises a series of key social and ethical questions about the culture of 'playing hurt', the role of coaches and medical staff, the deliberate infliction of pain in sport, and the use of drugs. This book begins by providing three different perspectives on the topic of pain and injury in sport, and goes on to discuss: \* pain, injury and performance \* the deliberate infliction of pain and injury \* the management of pain and injury \* the meaning of pain and injury. Book Cover......Page 1 Half-Title......Page 2 Series Title......Page 3 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Contributors......Page 9 Series Editor's Preface......Page 13 Acknowledgements......Page 15 Introduction: Pain and Injury in Sport......Page 16 Section I: Pain and Injury in Sports: Three Overviews......Page 30 1. The Sociology of Pain and Injury in Sport......Page 32 2. Sport and the Psychology of Pain......Page 49 3. Three Approaches to the study of pain in Sport......Page 64 Section II: Pain, Injury and Performance......Page 78 4. The Place of Pain in Running......Page 80 5. Pains and Strains on the Ice......Page 91 6. Injured Female Athletes......Page 104 Section III: The Deliberate Infliction of Pain and Injury......Page 122 7. Sport and the Systematic Infliction of Pain......Page 124 8. Pain and Injury in Boxing......Page 142 9. The International Infliction of Pain in Sport......Page 159 Section IV: The management of Pain and Injury......Page 178 10. Sports Medicine: A Very Peculiar Practice?......Page 180 11. Ethical Problems in the Medical Management of Sports Injuries......Page 197 12. The Ontology of Sports Injuries and Professional Medical Ethics......Page 215 13. The Role of Injury in the Oranization of Paralympic Sport......Page 226 Section V: The meaning of Pain and Injury......Page 242 14. Suffring in and for Sport......Page 244 15. Pain, Suffering and Paradox in Sport and Religion......Page 261 Index......Page 276 Examines the influence of social and cultural processes on how athletes experience pain and injury. This book provides three different perspectives on the topic of pain and injury in sport, and discusses: pain, injury and performance; the deliberate infliction of pain and injury; the management and the meaning of pain and injury 'Pain and Injury in Sport' presents a unique approach to the topic, integrating social and ethical aspects and offering much-needed critical analysis of the rapidly developing field of sports medicine