Taking Sport Seriously / editor Lincoln Allison. - Aachen, Germany : Meyer and Meyer, ©1998. - 201 p. ; 21 cm. - Chelsea School Research Centre edition ; v. 6 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sport and history: British and European traditions -- The Concept of Doping and the future of Olympic Sport -- Sport and civil society -- National responses to Global Sports -- Biology, Ideology, and Sport -- Sport in the cinema.

This is an inter-disciplinary collection of essays which seeks to define the achievement of the academic study of sport as it has developed over the past ten to 20 years. Each essay investigates an aspect of the importance of sport as it is now understood in the academic world.

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Sports
Sports in literature
Sports--Study and teaching

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