Soccer, CTE, and the Cultural Representation of Dementia

This article deploys a qualitative media content analysis to examine discourses linking sport, head injury, and longer term neurocognitive decline. It draws on seminal British television documentary associated print coverage demonstrate that the representation of sport-related brain injury is intricately connected both conceptions risk in sport wider social response aging dementia. The augments existing North American analyses provide first cross-cultural comparison this phenomenon and, doing so, illustrates how prominence cultural representations relates part distinct characteristics phenomenon, which extend amplify broader crisis concussion study therefore important because it provides unique perspective key contemporary sporting issue global health concern.