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Summary:

"This book provides an ethnography of an athletic training center in the athletics department of an NCAA Division I University in the United States. The author argues that the organizational orientation towards profit leads staff to use social structures to promote control and surveillance over individual care or empowerment"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• College Athlete Healthcare
• The Organization of NLU's Athletic Training Center
• In-House Care
• Sense-Making in the ATC
• The Gendered Nature of Healthcare in Big-Time College Sport
• The Racialized Nature of Healthcare in Big-Time College Sport
• Intersectional Experiences in College Athlete Healthcare
• Recognition of Injury
• Uncertainty of Injury
• Mobilizing Resources for Injury.

Author/Creator:

Pericak, Kaitlin, 1992- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Body factory: exploiting university athletes' healthcare for profit in the training room [by Pericak, K.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Body factory [by Pericak, K.] (Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2025 — ISBN 9781439924952; LCCN 2024016394)

Related Series:

Sporting (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Subjects:

College athletes — Health and hygiene — United States — Case studies

Sports injuries — Treatment — United States — Case studies

Sports medicine — United States — Case studies

College sports — Economic aspects — United States — Case studies

Physical education and training — United States — Administration — Case studies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

GV351 .P47 2025eb

ISBNs:

9781439924952 (electronic bk.)
1439924953 (electronic bk.)
9781439924938 [Invalid]
1439924937 [Invalid]
9781439924945 [Invalid]
1439924945 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1454581896

Other Control Numbers:

EBC31785836 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp306808296