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Volume 329:367 July 29, 1993 Number 5
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Sport and Exercise Science: Essays in the History of Sports Medicine

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Edited by Jack W. Berryman and Roberta J. Park. 372 pp., illustrated. Urbana, Ill., University of Illinois Press, 1992. $44.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). ISBN 0-252-01896-6.

Unique and fascinating: these are the two words that best describe this book of essays. In this unique and fascinating addition to the literature on sports and exercise science, the editors have given us a chance to peek at the history of a rapidly emerging field. As often happens, the contemplation of past ideas, and the application of scientific principles to those ideas, allows the reader to understand the origins of present-day misconceptions. The whole matrix of medical thought seems to come into sharper, clearer focus after an examination of what our forebears thought about exercise and its role in . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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