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Society is obsessed with categorising and treating individuals and
groups according to their physical and non-physical differences,
such as sex, gender, disability and race. This treatment can lead
to the inclusion or exclusion of an individual from the tangible
and intangible benefits of society. Where this practice becomes
discriminatory, legal frameworks can protect human rights and
ensure that people are treated with due respect for their
similarities and differences. In a sporting context, the inclusion
and exclusion of athletes based upon their differences is often a
necessary part of the essence of competitive sporting activity,
arranged around rules and categories that can have an unequal
exclusionary impact on certain classes of individual. Dominant
sporting cultures can also have exclusionary effects. This
important and innovative book seeks to investigate the socio-legal
and regulatory balance between inclusion and exclusion in
competitive sport. It critically analyses a range of legal and
non-legal cases concerning sport-specific inclusion and exclusion
in the areas of sex, gender, disability and race, including those
cases involving Oscar Pistorius, Caster Semenya and Luis Suarez, to
identify the extent to which the law and sport adopt a justifiable
and legitimate inclusive or exclusive approach to participation.
The book explores national and international regulatory frameworks,
identifying deficiencies and good practice, and concludes with
recommendations for regulatory reform. Inclusion and Exclusion in
Competitive Sport is important reading for anybody with an interest
in the relationship between sport and wider society, sports
development, sport management, sports law, or socio-legal studies.
Society is obsessed with categorising and treating individuals and
groups according to their physical and non-physical differences,
such as sex, gender, disability and race. This treatment can lead
to the inclusion or exclusion of an individual from the tangible
and intangible benefits of society. Where this practice becomes
discriminatory, legal frameworks can protect human rights and
ensure that people are treated with due respect for their
similarities and differences. In a sporting context, the inclusion
and exclusion of athletes based upon their differences is often a
necessary part of the essence of competitive sporting activity,
arranged around rules and categories that can have an unequal
exclusionary impact on certain classes of individual. Dominant
sporting cultures can also have exclusionary effects. This
important and innovative book seeks to investigate the socio-legal
and regulatory balance between inclusion and exclusion in
competitive sport. It critically analyses a range of legal and
non-legal cases concerning sport-specific inclusion and exclusion
in the areas of sex, gender, disability and race, including those
cases involving Oscar Pistorius, Caster Semenya and Luis Suarez, to
identify the extent to which the law and sport adopt a justifiable
and legitimate inclusive or exclusive approach to participation.
The book explores national and international regulatory frameworks,
identifying deficiencies and good practice, and concludes with
recommendations for regulatory reform. Inclusion and Exclusion in
Competitive Sport is important reading for anybody with an interest
in the relationship between sport and wider society, sports
development, sport management, sports law, or socio-legal studies.
This book introduces some emerging functional foods that are
natural resources with tremendous promise as nutraceuticals and
pharmaceuticals. The author considers biodiversity and
bioprospecting as a response to food security issues,
drug-resistance, nutrition-poor diets and other problems, exploring
the prospects of several under-utilized nutrients and bioactive
repositories. Readers will discover biochemical makeups, validated
health benefits, explanations of underlying mechanisms, hurdles in
the path of popularity and promotion strategies. Chapters explore
particular plants, seeds and fruits including the strawberry guava,
opuntia fruits, the Carissa genus, grape seeds, quinoa and the milk
thistle (Silybum), amongst others. They are considered as food
sources where possible and from the perspective of the roles they
can play in complementary and alternative medicine, such as in
wound healing, antimicrobial activity, gastroprotective activity in
treatment of cancers and as natural antioxidant sources. This rich
compilation holds plausible solutions to a range of current issues
and it endorses the much-needed goal of sustainability in terms of
diet and drugs. It paves the path for further research and
development on hitherto obscure natural resources. Scientists
working in the area of food development, phytochemical and
antioxidant analysis, bioprospecting of low-profile foods and in
complementary and alternative medicine will find this work
particularly valuable. It will also be of interest to the general
reader with an interest in food science, food security,
phytochemicals and functional food studies.
This book introduces some emerging functional foods that are
natural resources with tremendous promise as nutraceuticals and
pharmaceuticals. The author considers biodiversity and
bioprospecting as a response to food security issues,
drug-resistance, nutrition-poor diets and other problems, exploring
the prospects of several under-utilized nutrients and bioactive
repositories. Readers will discover biochemical makeups, validated
health benefits, explanations of underlying mechanisms, hurdles in
the path of popularity and promotion strategies. Chapters explore
particular plants, seeds and fruits including the strawberry guava,
opuntia fruits, the Carissa genus, grape seeds, quinoa and the milk
thistle (Silybum), amongst others. They are considered as food
sources where possible and from the perspective of the roles they
can play in complementary and alternative medicine, such as in
wound healing, antimicrobial activity, gastroprotective activity in
treatment of cancers and as natural antioxidant sources. This rich
compilation holds plausible solutions to a range of current issues
and it endorses the much-needed goal of sustainability in terms of
diet and drugs. It paves the path for further research and
development on hitherto obscure natural resources. Scientists
working in the area of food development, phytochemical and
antioxidant analysis, bioprospecting of low-profile foods and in
complementary and alternative medicine will find this work
particularly valuable. It will also be of interest to the general
reader with an interest in food science, food security,
phytochemicals and functional food studies.
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