Game Changer: The Technoscientific Revolution in Sports

by Rayvon Fouchae and Rayvon Fouché

Book Overview

How has technology challenged the notion of unadulterated athletic performance?

We like to think of sports as elemental: strong bodies trained to overcome height, weight, distance; the thrill of earned victory or the agony of defeat in a contest decided on a level playing field. But in Game Changer, Rayvon Fouch? argues that sports have been radically shaped by an explosion of scientific and technological advances in materials,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421421798
• ISBN13: 9781421421797
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"