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Kaitlin Pericak

Body Factory - Exploiting University Athletes Healthcare for Profit in Training

English · Paperback / Softback

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Description

"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"--

About the author

Kaitlin Pericak is Assistant Professor of Sociology at North Carolina Wesleyan University.

Product details

Authors	Kaitlin Pericak
Publisher	Temple University Press

Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	01.01.2025

EAN	9781439924945
ISBN	978-1-4399-2494-5
No. of pages	156
Series	Sporting
Subject	Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history

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