on our ongoing study of whey protein powder in order to “flesh out” ecological embodiment as a critical analytic for studying sport and athletic bodies. Our goals in doing so are twofold: to illustrate the more-than-human, ecological entanglements through which contemporary athletic bodies
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The Nature of the Body in Sport and Physical Culture: From Bodies and Environments to Ecological Embodiment
Samantha King and Gavin Weedon
Playing with Fire: Masculinity, Health, and Sports Supplements
Michael Atkinson
Canadian men flock to gyms to enlarge, reshape, and sculpt their bodies. Fitness centers, health-food stores, muscle magazines, and Internet sites profit by aggressively selling “sports supplements” to a wide range of exercising men. Once associated with only the hardcore factions of male bodybuilders (Klein, 1995), designer protein powders, creatine products, energy bars, ephedrine, amino acids, diuretics, and growth hormones such as androstenedione are generically marketed to men as health and lifestyle-improving aids. This paper explores how a select group of Canadian men connect the consumption of sports supplements to the pursuit of “established” masculinity. I collected ethnographic data from 57 recreational athletes in Canada and interpreted the data through the lens of figurational sociology. Analytic attention is thus given to how contemporary discourses and practices of supplementation are underscored by middle-class understandings of masculine bodies in a time of perceived “gender crisis” in Canada.
Engaging Multiple Medical Epistemologies: Medical Professionals’ Distance Running Advice and Treatment
Jennifer L. Walton-Fisette and Theresa A. Walton-Fisette
inflammatory changes in my one leg that I sought out medical attention the next day. And they ran blood work on me and I was astonished by how physiologically stressed my body was. There were inflammatory markers, something called C-reactive protein where it’s something that we usually measure typically for
Pride Body: Racialized Gay and Queer Men’s Physique Preparation for Canadian Pride Events
Daniel Uy
maintenance. Working Out Is a Way of Life I arrive at a busy, downtown Toronto café to await Harrison. As I sit on a barstool at a table for two with my laptop ready and beverage poised, I notice that Harrison enters and is finishing his postworkout protein shake while ordering himself a frothy frappé coffee
Soccer, CTE, and the Cultural Representation of Dementia
Dominic Malcolm
Bennet Omalu undertook a detailed postmortem investigation and subsequently (in 2005) published a case study report arguing that Webster’s brain showed a distinct pattern of tau protein, which was described as CTE. It was, however, John Corselis rather than Omalu who first identified CTE, through brain
