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  title info:
    title: Medicine, Sport and the Body
    sub title: a Historical Perspective
  name:
    name part: Carter, Neil.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: London
    publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (299 pages)
  abstract: What role does sports medicine play in today's society? Is it solely about treating sports injuries? Should it only be concerned with elite sport? This book provides a history of the relationship between sport, medicine and health from the mid-19th century to today. It combines the sub-disciplines of the history of medicine and the history of sport to give a balanced analysis of the role of medicine in sport and how this has evolved over the past two centuries. In an age where sports medicine plays an increasingly prominent role in both elite and recreational sport, this book provides a timely.
  table of contents: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Sport as Medicine: Ideas of Health, Sport and Exercise; Early ideas of health and physical activity; The emergence of public hygiene and physical culture; British physical culture and the rise of public health; Health and physical culture in the United States; The commercialization of physical culture; Sport, fitness and the state in inter-war Europe; The British state and national fitness; Welfarism, individual health and the fitness boom; International sport and the state; Conclusion; 2 This Sporting Life: Injuries and Medical Provision.
  table of contents: Introduction'The dangers of sport'; Occupational hazards; The rise of sporting welfarism; Sport's duty of care; Case study: rugby union; Conclusion; 3 Sports Medicine: Pioneers and Specialization; Introduction; The rise of the medical profession; The institutionalization of sports medicine; Early sports medicine organizations; International sports medicine organizations; American sports medicine and the American College of Sports Medicine; Sports medicine pioneers; R. Tait McKenzie; Ernst Jokl; British sports medicine and the British Association of Sport and Medicine.
  table of contents: British sports medicine pioneersThe changing direction of sports medicine; The fragmentation of sports medicine; From sports medicine to sport and exercise medicine; Sports medicine practitioner: the football club doctor; Conclusion; 4 Science and the Making of the Athletic Body; Introduction; Early trainers and coaches; Early 'scientific' training 1870-1914; International sport and the rise of coaching; Science and sport in the inter-war period; Coaching and the British amateur hegemony; Sports science in the post war period; Coaching in Australia; Boxing and sports science.
  table of contents: Sports science in Eastern EuropeThe state-sponsored athletic body; Conclusion; 5 Testing Times: Drugs, Anti-Doping and Ethics; Introduction; The emergence of an anti-doping discourse; Popular medicine and the quest for success; Sport, science and chemical assistance; 'The Monkey Gland affair'; The emergence of a sports drugs culture; Cycling and the culture of drugs; The rise of anti-doping ideology and practice; Drug use in British sport; 'Snooker loopy, nuts are we': Beta-blockers and Bill Werbeniuk; Ben Johnson, WADA and the political fall-out; Conclusion.
  table of contents: 6 Repairing the Athletic Body: Treatments, Practices and EthicsThe British football trainer; Sports medicine practices; Sports medicine practitioners and ethical dilemmas; Bloodgate; The patient's view; Legal implications; Conclusion; 7 Medicine, Sport and the Female Body; Introduction; Early women's sport and medical theories; Women and sport in the inter-war years; Female athletics and the Olympics; The British state and the female athletic body; Women, sport and medicine in the post-war period; Sport, the Cold War and gender testing; Women, sport and the second wave of feminism.
  note: The modern female athlete?
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-272) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Sports medicine
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Health promotion
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Sports Medicine
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Health Promotion
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Athletes
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: History, 19th Century
  subject:
    topic: History, 20th Century
  subject:
    topic: Médecine du sport
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Promotion de la santé
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Médecine
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 19e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Médecine
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    topic: MEDICAL
    topic: Sports Medicine
  subject:
    topic: SPORTS & RECREATION
    topic: Training
  subject:
    topic: Health promotion
  subject:
    topic: Sports medicine
  classification: RC1210
  classification: 617.102709
  classification: 2012 H-786
  classification: QT 11.1
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      title: Medicine, Sport and the Body : A Historical Perspective
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      name part: Carter, Neil.
    origin info:
      publisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, ©2012
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    record creation date: 121105
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng