| Chapter 12 |
Sport, body and health
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How can our understanding of sport today help to redefine what is meant by the body, health, pain, injury and hunger, in not only different social worlds but also different worlds of health?
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Key terms defined ■ Introduction ■ Health-worlds and life chances ■ Sport, body and society ■ The body and social theory ■ Deviant bodies ■ Civilised bodies ■ Natural bodies ■ Sport, the body and religion ■ Sport and the body in social thought ■ Civilised bodies and the quest ...
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