Using the dynamic social world of tournament bass fishing as a backdrop, this research combined qualitative and quantitative research methods in a grounded theory approach for the study of commodification, serious leisure and the relationship between these two important social phenomena....

Over the last decade, real spending in the United Kingdom NHS doubled in real terms to meet government targets including moves to increase spending rates to other EU countries and increasing health demands both as a result of increasing population of the elderly and illness related to lifestyle....