The Black Dog of Swimming: Mental Illness and Australia’s Sporting Industrial Complex

• Authors: Binoy Kampmark
• Languages of publication: EN

Keywords

mental illness; Australian swimming; health; sporting industrial complex

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Physical Culture and Sport. Studies and Research
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 81
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 23-35

Contributors

author

Binoy Kampmark

• RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/pcssr-2019-0003