Can sport cope with a "wimpy virus"? Using questions not asked in the HIV and sport discourses to resist discrimination

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Burke, Michael (2002) Can sport cope with a "wimpy virus"? Using questions not asked in the HIV and sport discourses to resist discrimination. Journal of philosophy of sport, XXIX (1). pp. 54-65. ISSN 0094-8705

Abstract

Comments on the efforts of sports communities to prevent the transmission of HIV viruses among athletes. Implementation of policing of athletic behavior; Accounts on the reaction of the media on the revelation of basketball player Magic Johnson of his HIV-positive status; Metaphoric link between sport and health.

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Item type	Article
URI	https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/1125
DOI	AN:6749395
Subjects	Historical > RFCD Classification > 320000 Medical and Health Sciences Historical > RFCD Classification > 330000 Education Historical > Faculty/School/Research Centre/Department > School of Sport and Exercise Science
Keywords	sports, HIV (viruses), athletes, transmission
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