Document Type
Article
Rights
This item is available under a Creative Commons License for non-commercial use only
Disciplines
Health care sciences and services, Sport and fitness sciences
Abstract
This article examines the concept of fitness, which, in spite of its much avowed cultural significance, has become the subject of much critical attention. In particular, it considers the now contested relation of fitness to health; the fact that, although there appears to be a clear consensus on a simple causal relation between the two, this has been deemed illusory outside the medico-scientific context of its production. In response to the problems with both of these positions, this article examines the potential for reconfiguring the relation between fitness and health on new terms. A complemental model of health and fitness is proposed; one that strives to account for the body’s objective and subjective dimensions and for those intermediary varieties of experience that lie in between.
Recommended Citation
Neville, R.D. (2012) Considering a complemental model of health and fitness, Sociology of Health & Illness. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01494.x
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01494.x
Publication Details
Sociology of Health & Illness