Sport and Exercise Science: ESSAYS IN THE HISTORY OF SPORTS MEDICINE (Sport and Society)

Book Overview

Sports medicine and the scientific study of exercise, sports, and physical education are enjoying a steady rise in popularity. This volume reveals that a number of current debates concerning the body, physical health, types and degrees of exercise, athletic contest, the use and abuse of aids to performance, and much more, have their roots in the nineteenth century and earlier.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252062426
• ISBN13: 9780252062421
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 6.3" x 1.0"