Abstract des Autors

This visual study explores the social conditions that promote the normalization of injuries in sport. Photographs taken at a university wrestling team's meets and practices, and in a hospital operating room, convey some of the details and social ambience of today's approach to collegiate sports medicine. Quotations drawn from photo-elicitation interviews with the coaches and athletes express the views of the participants. This study suggests that the normalization of injuries in sport - illustrated when universities make medical care immediately available and coaches and athletes minimize the significance of injury - encourages continued participation. Such continuation may be questioned by those concerned with the long-term effects of "playing with pain". Verf.-Referat