A Typological Understanding of Medical Support in Sport: What Do We Know, and What’s Next?

Reem AlHashmi, Molly Pocock, Alex Channon, Christopher Matthews

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Abstract

This article develops a typological understanding of medical support in sporting contexts. Based on the findings of a narrative literature review of social scientific studies, it outlines how medical support in sport can be usefully framed by four interrelated but conceptually distinct ideal-types. These include affiliated, transient, independent, and pseudo medical support. This understanding leads to the introduction of several avenues for further investigation, with an emphasis on exploring the boundaries and flexibility within different types of medical support through athletes’ perspectives and experiences, the impact of internet-based pseudo ‘medical’ knowledge, and the need for research from without the Western/Global North setting to highlight differences in a currently under-researched area of the field. We welcome scholars to critically engage with our ideas so as to refine, test, and reconsider them in light of empirical observations.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages17
JournalInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport
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Publication statusPublished - 19 Dec 2024

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Keywords

  • sport medicine
  • sociology of sport
  • sociology of medicine
  • medical care in sport

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