An illustrated history of health and fitness, from pre-history to our post-modern world [electronic resource] / Roy J. Shephard.
Shephard, Roy J., author.
2015
GV211
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Title An illustrated history of health and fitness, from pre-history to our post-modern world [electronic resource] / Roy J. Shephard.
Author Shephard, Roy J., author.
ISBN 9783319116716 electronic book
3319116711 electronic book
9783319116709
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11671-6
Published Cham : Springer, 2015.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-11671-6 doi
Call Number GV211
Dewey Decimal Classification 796
Summary This book examines the health/fitness interaction in an historical context. Beginning in primitive hunter-gatherer communities, where survival required adequate physical activity, it goes on to consider changes in health and physical activity at subsequent stages in the evolution of ℓ́ℓcivilization.ℓ́ℓ It focuses on the health impacts of a growing understanding of medicine and physiology, and the emergence of a middle-class with the time and money to choose between active and passive leisure pursuits. The book reflects on urbanization and industrialization in relation to the need for public health measures, and the ever-diminishing physical demands of the work-place. It then evaluates the attitudes of prelates, politicians, philosophers and teachers at each stage of the process. Finally, the book explores professional and governmental initiatives to increase public involvement in active leisure through various school, worksite, recreational and sports programmes.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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Digital File Characteristics text file PDF
Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 17, 2015).
Series Studies in history and philosophy of science (Dordrecht. Netherlands) ; volume 39.
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Chapter 1: Health and Fitness in Prehistory, Including Inferences from the Current Lifestyle of Indigenous Populations
Chapter 2: Examples of Early City Life from Ancient Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Israel, India and China: Health as a Gift of the Gods
Chapter 3: Legacies of the Classical Era: Minoa, Greece and Rome; a Recognition of Material Causes of Poor Health and Fitness
Chapter 4: The Middle Ages: Monasteries, Medical Schools and the Dawn of State Health Care
Chapter 5: The Renaissance: The Dawn of Scientific Enquiry into Health and Fitness
Chapter 6: The Enlightenment: The Impact of Reason and Religion upon Health and Fitness in a Period of Urban Growth and Industrialization
Chapter 7: The Victorian Era: The Birth of Scientific Societies and Blossoming of Public Health
Chapter 8: The Modern Era: Blossoming of the Olympic Movement and the Conquest of Acute Disease
Chapter 9: The Post-Modern Era: Chronic Disease and the Onslaught upon a Sedentary Lifestyle
Chapter 10: Future Directions in Health and Fitness.

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