{"product_id":"a-history-of-british-sports-medicine-9780719091285","title":"A History of British Sports Medicine","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA comprehensive history of the development of British sports medicine as a medical specialism, and of the changing biomedical understanding of the athlete - from normal healthy man, to supernormal hero or even physiological freak - from 1880 to the early twenty-first century. -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a timely history of a narrow specialty told in a way that will interest a much wider audience.\u003cbr\u003eJon Agar, Endeavour, 12\/12\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book can – and should – serve as a stimulus for further advancing our understandings of the history of sports medicine, of exercise science, and much more.\u003cbr\u003eRoberta J Park, Sport in History, 15\/02\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(carves) out a useful niche in the growing sophistication of empirical research around the historical development of sports medicine and adds to the developing rapprochement among histories of the body, sport history, and histories of modern medicine\u003cbr\u003ePatricia Vertinsky, Twentieth Century British History, 27\/02\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is well researched and nicely paced....Heggie presents a convincing argument about the reconceptualization of the athletic body throughout the twentieth century, which shifts the focus away from the establishment of medical committees and sporting organizations, which is a refreshing perspective\u003cbr\u003eJulie Anderson, University of Kent, The British Journal for the History of Science, 01\/03\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn important and interesting contribution to the sport science debate\u003cbr\u003eSusanna Hedenborg, Department of Sport Science, Malmö University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A History of British Sports Medicine' is a fine addition to broader social histories of medicine and should be of interest to all historians of medicine and sport ... this is an interesting and well-researched book on a subject’     \u003cbr\u003eSocial History of Medicine 25 (2) May 2012\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction: What is sports medicine?\u003cbr\u003e2. Moderate Individuals: Beginnings, 1900–27\u003cbr\u003e3. Ideal Citizens?  Research and injuries, 1928–52\u003cbr\u003e4. Making Champions: Boundaries, 1953–70\u003cbr\u003e5. Sport for all and the inert majority, 1970–87\u003cbr\u003e6. Conclusion: Specialty, 1988–2005\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037347545431,"sku":"9780719091285","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719091285.jpg?v=1750935386","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-history-of-british-sports-medicine-9780719091285","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}