Body Factory - Exploiting University Athletes Healthcare for Profit in Training

"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

Product details

• Authors: Kaitlin Pericak
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2025
• EAN: 9781439924938
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-2493-8
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: Sporting
• Subject: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history