Michael Atkinson

Gebundenes Buch

Sport, Mental Illness and Sociology

Beschreibung

This book approaches the study of mental illness in sport cultures from a variety of social scientific perspectives. Contributions focus on the multiple manifestations of mental illness within sport cultures, and the degree to which sport may be utilized as a means of helping people who struggle with mental illness.

Autor

Michael Atkinson is Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. His research and teaching interests focus on the social experience of suffering and pain, the phenomenology of anxiety and depression, existentialism, and ethnographic research methods.

Produktdetails

• Research in the Sociology of Sport
• Verlag: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781787434707
• ISBN-10: 1787434702
• Artikelnr.: 53604427