Medicine, sport and the body : a historical perspective / / Neil Carter.
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-discipli...
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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