Download e-book for iPad: Medicine, Sport and the Body: A Historical Perspective by Neil Carter
By Neil Carter
ISBN-10: 1472558545
ISBN-13: 9781472558541
ISBN-10: 1849660670
ISBN-13: 9781849660679
This ebook offers a historical past of the connection among game, medication and well-being from the mid-19th century to this present day. It combines the sub-disciplines of the historical past of drugs and the historical past of recreation to provide a balanced research of the position of medication in recreation and the way this has advanced over the last centuries.
In an age the place activities medication performs an more and more favourite position in either elite and leisure activity, this e-book presents a well timed and transparent research of its upward thrust and purpose.
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