Game changer the technoscientific revolution in sports / Rayvon Fouché.

Author/creator Fouché, Rayvon, 1969-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2017]
Descriptionviii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents Introduction : sports, bodies, and technoscience -- Black is the new fast : swimsuit technoscience and the recalibration of elite swimming -- Gearing up for the game : equipment as a shaper of sport -- Disabled, superabled, or normal : Oscar Pistorius and physical augmentation -- "I know one when I see one" : sport and sex identification in an age of gender mutability -- The parable of a cancer Jesus : Lance Armstrong and the failure of direct drug testing -- "May I see your passport?" : the athlete biological passport as a technology of control -- Conclusion : body/motor/machine : the future of technology and sport.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2016028462
ISBN9781421421797 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1421421798 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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