Challenging human and sporting boundaries: The case of Oscar Pistorius

Marcellini, Anne; Férez, Sylvain; Issanchou, Damien; Léséleuc, Eric de; McNamee, Mike

doi:10.1016/j.peh.2011.11.002

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“…In this line, we shall understand technology as human-made means to reach human interests and goals. Sport technology, then, are human mode means to reach human interests and goals related to sport (Marcellini, 2012;Magdalinski, 2000, Foster, 2012.…”

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Technology and sport for health promotion: A bibliometric analysis

Belfiore

Arillo

Palma

2019

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The world of sport is continually changing and the use of technology is one of those areas that has made an impact on many sports and on health promotion. The aim of this work is to establish, through a bibliometric analysis, whether and how technology can change the way of doing sport, favouring health promotion. The study develops a bibliometric overview of all the journals that are currently indexed in Web of Science (WoS) database in any of the categories connected health-technology-sport research. The research has studied the influential concepts and themes in the field of health promotion through technological innovations in sport. The analysis was conducted using the frequency of keywords and citations from the articles published between 2000 and 2018. The work identifies the leading journals in health research through a bibliometric approach. The analysis shows a deep overview of the results of health journals. It is worth noting that many journals have entered the WoS database during the last years, in many cases to fill some specific niche that has emerged in the literature, although the most popular ones have been in the database for a long time.

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Technology and sport for health promotion: A bibliometric analysis

Belfiore

Arillo

Palma

2019

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“…This phenomenon raises the question whether such a myth reduces the stigma of amputation by trivializing the image of a prosthesis wearer, or if, in reality, the over-representation of a repaired, or hybrid, body does not have the reverse effect, even perverse, by constantly exposing the image of a super human, or an "athlete-come-hero" (see O. Pistorius [26]). It is indeed the face of a "monster" (in the sense given by the philosopher M. Foucault [27]: unclassable, displacing the limits of normality), which is particularly present in the majority of these mythical works, rather than the "ordinary" prosthesis-wearer, amputated following an accident at work, for example.…”

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Robotic Prosthetics : Moving Beyond Technical Performance

Jurasse¹,

Maestrutti

Morel

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IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag.

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“…For this reason, not only do these athletes claim that they should be allowed to take part in 1 There have been other difficult cases: Liz Hartel (postpolio), who won a silver medal in equestrian dressage at the 1952 Olympics. A wheelchair archer, Neroli Fairhall, also competed in the 1984 Olympic Games; however, her disability became an issue as her alleged stability advantage was questioned by traditional upright archers (Marcellini, 2012). A recent case that sparked controversy was PGA Tour, Inc.…”

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“…Where technology directly affects the human body, the doubts about its legitimacy have already become significant. This has been the challenge to sport ethics in the case of Oscar Pistorius (Zettler, 2009;Marcellini, 2012). But it is probable that in the near future we will see sportspersons wanting to change their organic parts of the body for mechanical prosthesis 2 .…”

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