Medicine, Sport And The Body: A Historical Perspective

What role does sports medicine play in today's society? This book analyzes the relationship between sport, medicine and health from the mid-19th century to today. It looks at both history of medicine and the history of sport to give a balanced view of the role of medicine in sport and how this has evolved over the past two centuries.

• • Author: Neil Carter
• • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• • Publication Date: Mar 13, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 304 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1472558545
• • ISBN-13: 9781472558541