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Author Berger, Ronald J.

Title Hoop dreams on wheels : disability and the competitive wheelchair athlete / Ronald J. Berger
Published New York : Routledge, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 164 pages) : illustrations
Series Contemporary sociological perspectives
Contemporary sociological perspectives series.
Contents Disability in society -- Disability, sports, and basketball -- A case study of competitive wheelchair athletics -- The first generation -- The second generation -- The third generation -- The fourth generation -- Living with disabilities : pathways to wheelchair sports -- Competitive sports and the dilemmas of disability identity
Summary Presents the life histories of the players that help students develop their sociological imagination, that is, an understanding of the interrelationship between biography and history in society and the ways in which personal troubles are related to public issues
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-157) and index
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Subject Wheelchair basketball -- United States
Sports for people with disabilities.
Athletes with disabilities -- Biography
People with disabilities -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Basketball.
Athletes with disabilities
People with disabilities
Sports for people with disabilities
Wheelchair basketball
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
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