This article deploys a qualitative media content analysis to examine discourses linking sport,
head injury, and longer term neurocognitive decline. It draws on a seminal British television …

This article proposes a Social Determinants of Health framework as a counter to the
prominence of bio-determinist tropes in understandings of the relationship between …

After fevered media coverage of a possible link between football (soccer) heading and long-
term damage to the brain, 2016 saw the Professional Footballers' Association call for a …

Concussion has become one of the most significant issues in contemporary sport. The life-
changing impact of head injury and the possible threat that chronic traumatic …

This article investigates how media discourses are sites for multiple “becomings” of chronic
traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurobiological condition associated with repetitive …

Football, also known as soccer or association football, is popular but has a potential link with
dementia developing in retired players. The FA and soccer regulators in the USA have …

This chapter looks at the epic struggle between the National Football League (NFL) and
social actors concerned about football, brain injury, and chronic traumatic encephalopathy …

This chapter explores the development of concussion and CTE as issues in sport, through
the lens of medicalization. It argues that medicalization processes are evident at three …

Objectives Sport psychology researchers have yet to explore the socio-cultural context of
concussion. The aim with this study was to explore the contribution of one socio-cultural …

Since the early 2000s media attention has focused on professional football and chronic
traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative type of traumatic brain injury. The multiple …