LABRST 2H03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Vicarious Liability
28 Apr 2019
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Violence, risk and liability in male sports culture: kevin young. Professional sports and violent and hazardous, routine injuries. Corporate neglect and social control of violence related to paid work. Whether workplace injury can be best understood as the result of exploitation by greedy owners, or whether injuries are actually freely consented to by workers in the nature of work agreements. Tolerant attitudes to injury emerge in a process of masculinization that brings central meaning to the lives of male athletes. Steroids have made players larger and therefore able to injure one another more easily, increases in weights, 300 pounds + Fractures are so common that every stadium has x rays. In 1981, 462 games were lost in the cfl because of injury. An estimated 318 000 football injuries annually require emergency room treatment in the us. Many football deaths have been connected to insufficient water intake, quick get fit conditioning techniques.
