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Title Sport and exercise science : essays in the history of sports medicine / edited by Jack W. Berryman and Roberta J. Park.

Imprint Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1992.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  617.102709 Sp67    ---  Available
Description xvii, 372 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series Sport and society
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.
Added Author Berryman, Jack W.
Park, Roberta J.
ISBN 0252018966 (cl : alk. paper)
0252062426 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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