Game changer : the technoscientific revolution in sports /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fouché, Rayvon, 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Table of 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.