ABSTRACT
The rise of sports medicine to the apex of sports science is something that I believe has not been commented upon. There are hierarchies within hierarchies. Sports medicine sits over sports science, which sits in panoramic ascendancy over what I take to be the humanities of sport: history, literature, philosophy and theology. I wish, against that hegemony, to challenge some of the more self-aggrandising possibilities of sports medicine in the final chapter of this book.
