Overview
- Addresses the interest of the Exercise is Medicine movement
- Provides a unique and succinct account of the history of health and fitness
- Emphasizes the implications of the history of health and fitness for current and future public policy
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
Keywords
- Exercise is medicine
- History of health and fitness
- Growth of medical knowledge
- Contribution of sports to health
- Models for teaching physical education
- Quackery in health and medicine
- Challenges to health and fitness
- Health and fitness in industry
- Health science education
- Feminine touch in health
- History of sport
- Hunter-gatherer lifestyle
- Fitness today
- Patterns of physical activity
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
A full and detailed curriculum vitae, with a list of books and other publications, is available on line, at: www.royshephard.net
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A History of Health & Fitness: Implications for Policy Today
Authors: Roy J. Shephard
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65097-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65096-8Published: 24 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87949-9Published: 09 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65097-5Published: 18 September 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 516
Number of Illustrations: 124 b/w illustrations
Topics: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, History of Biology, Sport Science , History of Education