Being disabled, becoming a champion. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Nicholas Bancel, Julie Cornaton, Anne Marcellini.
• Editors: Bancel, Nicolas; Cornaton, Julie; Marcellini, Anne
• Contents: 1. Introduction: From the making of Paralympic champions to justification of the bio-technical improvement of man. The ideology of progress in action Nicolas Bancel, Julie Cornaton and Anne Marcellini History of sport organizations and their actors 2. The divisive origins of sports for physically disabled people in Switzerland (1956–1968) Julie Cornaton, Angela Schweizer, Sylvain Ferez and Nicolas Bancel 3. The development of Swiss wheelchair athletics. The key role of the Swiss Association of Paraplegics (1982-2015) Stanislas Frenkiel 4. The manager, the doctor and the technician: political recognition and institutionalization of sport for the physically disabled in France (1968–1973) Sylvain Ferez, Sébastien Ruffié, Damien Issanchou and Julie Cornaton 5. Sports games for people with intellectual disabilities. Institutional analysis of an unusual international configuration Elise Lantz and Anne Marcellini Athletes lyrics: competitor, pioneer, researcher 6. The "fresh talk" of adapted sport athletes Yann Beldame 7. The institutionalization of off-road wheelchair riding in France (1990-2015): ‘truly a sport of sharing and diversity’ Gaël Villoing, Eric Perera and Nathalie Le Roux 8. Athlete, anthropologist and advocate: moving towards a lifeworld where difference is celebrated P. David Howe Various bodies, modified bodies, modular bodies 9. Technology at the service of natural performance: cross analysis of the Oscar Pistorius and Caster Semenya cases Damien Issanchou, Sylvain Ferez and Eric de Léséleuc 10. Prosthetic dreams: "Wow Effect", mechanical paradigm and modular body – prospects 2. on prosthetics Jérôme Goffette 11. Ethics and enhancement in sport: becoming the fastest (human?) being Johann A. R. Roduit and Roman Gaehwiler
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 796.087; Sports for people with disabilities; Sports administration; Athletes with disabilities; Disabilities
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429588945
• Related ISBNs: 9780429590887; 9780429587009; 9780429197437
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