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Book SynopsisGame Changer will change the way you look at sports-and the outsized impact technoscience has on them.
Trade ReviewMr Fouché makes important points about sport’s growing grey areas
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The EconomistThe text is an interesting exploration into the obsession with sports and the influence of what the author calls the "technoscientific revolution." There is no discussion of the specific science and technology that undergird the tremendous changes. Recommended. all readers.
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ChoiceGame Changer offers a fine introduction to complex questions raised by the application of science and technology to athletic competition. Where does the athlete stop and the technology begin? This and a host of other issues should spark debate in upper-division and graduate courses in sociology, ethics, American Studies, and sports history.
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The History TeacherGame Changer is not an easy read. The analysis and arguments are delivered in all of their complexity. The use of technical language and academic jargon will put off many non-specialists, but if you have the patience to slog through those passages, you will be rewarded. This is an important and thought provoking book and sheds light on the past, while anticipating the future technological leaps that will further blur the line between the athlete and the performance.
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New York Journal of BooksFouche’s Game Changer provides important and original insights and understandings and is highly recommended reading for scholars within the social sciences and humanities of sport and of technoscience, and, more generally, for all those with an interest in the current status and future of sport.
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MetascienceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Sports, Bodies, and Technoscience1: Black is the New Fast: Swimsuit Technoscience and the Recalibration of Elite Swimming2: Gearing up for the Game: Equipment as a Shaper of Sport3: Disabled, Superabled, or Normal: Oscar Pistorius and Physical Augmentation4: "I Know One When I See One": Sport and Sex Identification in an Age of Gender Mutability5: The Parable of a Cancer Jesus: Lance Armstrong and the Failure of Direct Drug Testing6: "May I See Your Passport?": The Athlete Biological Passport as a Technology of ControlConclusion: Body/Motor/Machine: The Future of Technology and SportNotesIndex
