KIN250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Sports Medicine, David Pendleton Oakerhater, Medicalization

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: KIN250
• Professor: Wade Wilson

Document Summary

Drug use in elite level sport. from an introduction to drugs in sport. Increase in use of drugs: growing demand for drugs. The medicalization of sport: medical imperialism (waitzkin and waterman, 4 problems: aging, drug addiction, alcoholism, and pregnancy. Increase in disease causes increase in preventative medicine that can be used in any dependence on professionally provided care, drugs, medicalization of life-span, prevention and expectations. Increase in drug use is associated with social process w/in sport world and medicine. The medicalization of life: process which involves making medicine and the labels (cid:498)healthy(cid:499) and (cid:498)ill(cid:499) relevant aspect of life (cid:523)diet, sleep, work etc (cid:524) Illich medicalization of life involves a number of processes including growing: rise began in (cid:883)96(cid:882)s (cid:498)sports medicine(cid:499, physicians were concerned with (cid:498)prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of exercise related illnesses and injuries and maximization of performance(cid:499) Sport and commercialization: 2 processes: development of sport sponsorship and increasing global audience, associated with olympic success and monetary success.