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Game Changer - The Technoscientific Revolution in Sports (Hardcover) Loot Price: R766
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Game Changer - The Technoscientific Revolution in Sports (Hardcover): Rayvon Fouche

Game Changer - The Technoscientific Revolution in Sports (Hardcover)

Rayvon Fouche

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We like to think of sports as elemental: strong bodies trained to overcome height, weight, distance; the thrill of earned victory or the agony of defeat in a contest decided on a level playing field. But in Game Changer, Rayvon Fouche argues that sports have been radically shaped by an explosion of scientific and technological advances in materials, training, nutrition, and medicine dedicated to making athletes stronger and faster. Technoscience, as Fouche dubs it, increasingly gives the edge (however slight) to the athlete with the latest gear, the most advanced training equipment, or the performance-enhancing drugs that are hardest to detect. In this revealing book, Fouche examines a variety of sports paraphernalia and enhancements, from fast suits, athletic shoes, and racing bicycles to basketballs and prosthetic limbs. He also takes a hard look at gender verification testing, direct drug testing, and the athlete biological passport in an attempt to understand the evolving place of technoscience across sport. In this book, Fouche: * Examines the relationship among sport, science, and technology* Considers what is at stake in defining sporting culture by its scientific knowledge and technology* Provides readers and students with an informative and engagingly written study Focusing on well-known athletes, including Michael Phelps, Oscar Pistorius, Caster Semenya, Usain Bolt, and Lance Armstrong, Fouche argues that technoscience calls into question the integrity of games, records, and our bodies themselves. He also touches on attempts by sporting communities to regulate the use of technology, from elite soccer's initial reluctance to utilize goal-line technology to automobile racing's endless tweaking of regulatory formulas in an attempt to blur engineering potency and reclaim driver skill and ability. Game Changer will change the way you look at sports-and the outsized impact technoscience has on them.

General

Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2017
Authors: Rayvon Fouche
Dimensions: 235 x 158 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-2179-7
Categories: Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > History of engineering & technology
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Service industries > Sport & leisure industries
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN: 1-4214-2179-8
Barcode: 9781421421797

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