Description |
xvii, 372 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Series |
Sport and society
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Exercise and the medical tradition from Hippocrates through antebellum Amemrica : a review essay / J. W. Berryman -- Athletes and their training in Britain and America, 1800-1914 / R. J. Park -- "Athlete's heart" : the medical debate over athleticism, 1870-1920 / J. C. Whorton -- Physiologists, physicians, and physical educators : nineteenth-century biology and exercise, hygienic and educative / R. J. Park -- Exercise, physical capability, and the eternally wounded woman in late nineteenth-century North America / P. Vertinsky -- Bernarr Macfadden : reformer of feminine form / J. Todd -- The early development of sports medicine in Germany / J. M. Hoberman -- The scientific quest for physical culture and the persistent appeal of quackery / D. J. Mrozek -- Muscular vegetarianism : the debate over diet and athletic performance in the progressive era / J. C. Whorton -- A history of the use of anabolic steroids in sport / T. Todd -- |
Subject |
Sports medicine -- History.
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Added Author |
Berryman, Jack W.
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Park, Roberta J.
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ISBN |
0252018966 (cl : alk. paper) |
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0252062426 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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