TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ventresca,Matt
TI  - Sociocultural examinations of sports concussions
T2  - Routledge research in sport and exercise science
SN  - 9780429028175
AV  - RC394.C7 
U1  - 617.4/81044 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Brain
KW  - Concussions
KW  - Sports injuries
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Sports
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Sports and state
KW  - MEDICAL / Sports Medicine
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - MEDICAL / Neurology
KW  - MEDICAL / Neuroscience
N2  - "Sport's "concussion crisis" has been characterized by controversial scientific discoveries, athlete suicides, and high profile lawsuits involving professional sports leagues, while provoking widespread media coverage, changes to game rules, and debate about the future of many popular sports. Sociocultural Examinations of Sports Concussion is the first edited collection to bring together multiple sociocultural perspectives on sports concussion that interrogate the social, economic, political, and historical forces shaping the cultural impacts of these injuries. Each of the ten chapters move beyond biomedical or neuroscientific paradigms to critically examine a specific intersection of sociocultural factors influencing public perceptions about concussion or athlete experiences of brain injury. These include analyses of media and advertising, medical treatment and diagnostic protocols, gender and masculinity, developments in equipment and scientific models, economics and labor politics, understandings of trauma and recovery, public health philosophies and disciplinary differences in framing the ontologies of concussion. Drawing from a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, Sociocultural Examinations of Sports Concussion offers a diverse set of analyses examining brain injuries as cultural and embodied phenomena affecting more than just athletes' brains, but also embedded within and (re)shaping meanings, identities, and social contexts. It is valuable reading for graduate students and researchers interested in the experience and treatment of sports concussion, sport sociology, and sports technology"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429028175
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -