HIST 3838 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Oxygen Therapy, Acne Vulgaris, Libido
20 Mar 2017
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Cyborg athletics: technology, therapy, and genetics in an era of capitalized sport. Athletic bodies marked by class, nation, race: class. Working class (skilled, semi-skilled, unskilled: nation. Cyborg athletics: technology and the athletic body, speed, vitamins, selzers, and elixers, sport medicine, international sport organization and regulation, contemporary doping and testing, state sponsored doping, complicity also through technology. Cyborg athletics: can argue that all athletes have been cyborg one way or another. If the definition of a cyborg was a creature who used technology and science to enhance their abilities above normal, then all successful athletes in the. )t"s useful to consider the concept of the cyborg to draw out attention to the emphasis on enhancing normal capabilities a central theme in sport history. Johnson was tested 19times between 1986- 1988 shipped to toronto and sell them to his athletes. Vitamins, selzers, and elixers: paavo nurmi, finland, otto peltzer, germany, recresal (phosphate sodium) (cid:498)dr. brustmann"s famous tablets(cid:499)
