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Author Heggie, Vanessa, author

Title A history of British sports medicine / Vanessa Heggie
Published [Place of publication not identified] : Manchester University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (232 pages)
Contents Introduction -- Moderate individuals : beginnings, 1900-27 -- Ideal citizens? Research and injuries, 1928-52 -- Making champions : boundaries, 1953-70 -- Sport for all and the inert majority, 1970-87 -- Conclusion : specialty, 1988-2005
Summary This text offers a comprehensive study, and social history, of the development of sports medicine in Britain, as practiced by British doctors and on British athletes in national and international settings.-- Source other than Library of Congress
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Sports medicine -- Great Britain -- History
Medicine -- History -- 18th century.
Sports Medicine -- history
History, 19th Century
History, 18th Century
MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General.
Medicine
Sports medicine
Sportmedizin
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781526130242
1526130246