A typological understanding of medical support in sport: what do we know and what’s next?

AlHashmi, R ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9499-0951, Pocock, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9660-1879, Channon, A and Matthews, CR ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8561-2863, 2024. A typological understanding of medical support in sport: what do we know and what’s next? International Review for the Sociology of Sport. ISSN 1012-6902

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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.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	International Review for the Sociology of Sport
Creators:	AlHashmi, R., Pocock, M., Channon, A. and Matthews, C.R.
Publisher:	Sage
Date:	19 December 2024
ISSN:	1012-6902
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1177/10126902241297422 DOI 2248336 Other
Divisions:	Schools > School of Science and Technology
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	06 Jan 2025 15:52
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2025 15:52
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52782

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