Sport, technology and the body: the nature of performance
Auteur :
Magdalinski, Tara
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9780415378772
Date de publication :
28 oct. 2008
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
453 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
What is the nature of athletic performance? This book offers an answer to this question by considering the relationship between sport, technology and the body. It examines cultural resistance to the enhancement of athletes and explores the ways in which performance technologies complicate and confound our conception of the sporting body.