| Description |
xvii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Sport and society |
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Sport and society.
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| Contents |
Exercise and the medical tradition from Hippocrates through antebellum America : a review essay / Jack W. Berryman -- Athletes and their training in Britain and America, 1800-1914 / Roberta J. Park -- "Athlete's heart" : the medical debate over athleticism, 1870-1920 / James C. Whorton -- Physiologists, physicians, and physical educators : nineteenth-century biology and exercise, hygienic and educative / Roberta J. Park -- Exercise, physical capability, and the eternally wounded woman in late nineteenth-century North America / Patricia Vertinsky -- Bernarr Macfadden : reformer of feminine form / Jan Todd -- The early development of sports medicine in Germany / John M. Hoberman -- The scientific quest for physical culture and the persistent appeal of quackery / Donald J. Mrozek -- Muscular vegetarianism : the debate over diet and athletic performance in the progressive era / James C. Whorton -- A history of the use of anabolic steroids in sport / Terry Todd |
| Analysis |
Geschichte |
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Sports medicine History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sports medicine -- History.
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Exercise -- physiology.
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Sports Medicine -- history.
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Sports -- history.
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| Author |
Berryman, Jack W.
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Park, Roberta J.
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| LC no. |
91027220 |
| ISBN |
0252018966 (cl : alk. paper) |
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0252062426 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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