The Paralympic Games Explained: Second EditionRoutledge, 2016 M07 1 - 246 páginas The Paralympic Games is the second largest multi-sport festival on earth and an event which poses profound and challenging questions about the nature of sport, disability and society. The Paralympic Games Explained is the first complete introduction to the Paralympic phenomenon, exploring every key aspect and issue, from the history and development of the Paralympic movement to the economic and social impact of the contemporary Games. Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, it includes new material on hosting and legacy, Vancouver 2010 to Rio 2016, sport for development, and case studies of an additional ten Paralympic nations. Drawing on a range of international examples, it discusses key issues such as: • how societal attitudes influence disability sport • the governance of Paralympic and elite disability sport • the relationship between the Paralympics and the Olympics • drugs and technology in disability sport • classification in disability sport. Containing useful features including review questions, study activities, web links and guides to further reading throughout, The Paralympic Games Explained is the most accessible and comprehensive guide to the Paralympics currently available. It is essential reading for all students with an interest in disability sport, sporting mega-events, the politics of sport, or disability in society. |
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... individuals have assisted in a variety of ways, each providing a small piece of the jigsaw that went to make up this book. I would like to give special thanks to all my friends and contacts working in disability and Paralympic sport ...
... individuals believe that the Special Olympics and the Paralympic Games are one and the same event. This chapter will explain the difference between the two. It will then go on to discuss the participation of athletes with an ...
... individual team members, making it impossible to come up with accurate figures for participating athletes either by country or gender. There is, however, now general agreement regarding the number of participating nations at each Games ...
... individuals with spinal injuries was the major depression caused by societal attitudes to them, which, at the time, automatically assigned them to the scrapheap of life as useless and worthless individuals. Ludwig Guttmann was a German ...
... individuals with disabling conditions , especially those with spinal injuries who were considered to have no hope of surviving their injuries . Following the war , however , medical authorities were prompted to re - evaluate traditional ...
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2 The Olympic Movement and the Paralympic Games | 23 |
3 The governance of Paralympic sport | 37 |
4 Disability and the body | 52 |
5 The broader social issues of disability within society and their impact on sports participation | 68 |
6 Media marketing and disability sport | 86 |
7 Major issues within the Paralympic Movement | 111 |
8 Diversity at the Paralympic Games | 128 |
9 International perspectives on Paralympic participation | 157 |
10 The Special Olympics intellectual disability and the Paralympic Games | 198 |
Bibliography | 210 |
Index | 225 |