'It's not about health, it's about performance': Sport medicine, health, and the culture of risk in Canadian sport

Physical Culture, Power, and the Body

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 176-194

  Theberge, Nancy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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EID: 84906034491     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203014653     Document Type: Chapter

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