Readings

Thursday 

9/20/01

Bodies 

General:  **Hancock et al., The Body, Culture, and Society:  An Introduction, 2000. 

   Hughes.  Chapter 1.  Medicalized Bodies (pp. 12-28). 

   Jagger.  Chapter 3.  Consumer Bodies (pp. 45-63). 

9/25/01

Sports

Sports:  Hoberman, Mortal Engines, 1992. 

   Chapter 1.  In the Penal Colony:  Sport and the Great Experiment (pp. 1-32). 

   Chapter 4.  Faster, Higher, Stronger:  A History of Doping in Sport (pp. 11-153). 

   Chapter 7.  A Conspiracy So Vast:  The Politics of Doping

(pp. 229-268). 

Eitzen, Fair and Foul, 1999. 

   Chapter 4.  Sport is fair, sport is foul (pp. 41-57). 

   Chapter 5.  Sport is healthy, sport is destructive (pp. 59-77). 

Burstyn, The Rites of Men, 1999. 

   Chapter 8.  High performance:  Drugs, politics, and profit in sport (pp. 221-251). 

Barnes, Julian, 2000.  Annals of endurance.  The hardest test:  Drugs and the Tour de France.  The New Yorker, August 21 & 28: 94-103. 

9/27/01

weight loss and the ideal body 

Brumberg, The Body Project, 1997. 

   Chapter 4.  Body Projects (pp. 97-137). 

Leccese, 1994.  Chapter 7.  Differential Prohibition, Scientific Discourse, and Anorexiant Stimulants.  In:  Winkler and Cole (eds.), The Good Body, pp. 108-123. 

Stearns, Fat History, 1997. 

   Chapter 5.  Stepping up the Pace:  Old Motives, New Methods (pp. 98-126). 

   Chapter 6.  Fat City:  American Weight Gains in the Twentieth Century (pp. 127-149). 

10/2/01

students decide

students decide  (cosmetic surgery? implants? Viagra?) 

1) http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v284n3/rfull/joc00055.html

2)http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/980119/essay1.html

3)http://www.foresight.org/UTF/Unbound_LBW/chapt_1.html

http://www.foresight.org/UTF/Unbound_LBW/chapt_10.html

4)http://www.ubic-consulting.com/article_nutra6.htm 

5)  Valkin, Vanessa, 2001.  Weight Watchers in IPO.  Financial Times (London), September 15, 2001, Saturday USA Edition 2, p. 14.