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Author Fouché, Rayvon, 1969- author.

Title Game changer : the technoscientific revolution in sports / Rayvon Fouch.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 262 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Sports -- Technological innovations.
Sports -- Technological innovations.
Sports.
Sports -- Physiological aspects.
Sports -- Physiological aspects.
Performance technology.
Performance technology.
Doping in sports.
Doping in sports.
Sports sciences.
Sports sciences.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Fouché, Rayvon, 1969- Game changer. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2017] 9781421421797 (DLC) 2016028462 (OCoLC)960741739
ISBN 9781421421810 (electronic book)
142142181X (electronic book)
9781421421797
1421421798