ABSTRACT
This volume began by exploring how the relationship between sports medicine, professionalism and the role of the body in the sporting environment could impact upon a reconfiguration of the sporting ethos that has emerged from the twentieth century. Injury is an important component of this rubric, and this chapter will explore how injury is treated in a commercialised world as well as exploring the legacy of political battles that were fought in the name of international sport and the role injury and sports medicine played in these. The discussion will begin by exploring the nature of injury in relation to the context of the previous chapters and the impact that a more commercial sporting world has had upon the often disposable human bodies that perform in sporting arenas.
