Sports and Exercise Science, Essays in the History of Sports Medicine

Abstract

Exercise and the medical tradition from Hippocrates through antebellum America : a review essay / Jack W. Berryman -- Athletes and their training in Britain and America, 1800-1914 / Roberta J. Park -- "Athlete's heart" : the medical debate over athleticism, 1870-1920 / James C. Whorton -- Physiologists, physicians, and physical educators : nineteenth-century biology and exercise, hygienic and educative / Roberta J. Park -- Exercise, physical capability, and the eternally wounded woman in late nineteenth-century North America / Patricia Vertinsky -- Bernarr Macfadden : reformer of feminine form / Jan Todd -- The early development of sports medicine in Germany / John M. Hoberman -- The scientific quest for physical culture and the persistent appeal of quackery / Donald J. Mrozek -- Muscular vegetarianism : the debate over diet and athletic performance in the progressive era / James C. Whorton -- A history of the use of anabolic steroids in sport / Terry Todd.