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A History of Health

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    Chapter 1 Those Pesky Dates: A Simple Time Line for the Evolution of Society
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    Chapter 2 The Hunter-Gatherer Idyll
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    Chapter 3 Irrigation and the Seductive Sedentary Lifestyle
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    Chapter 4 Evolution of the Sedentary Lifestyle in Classical Culture
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    Chapter 5 Were the Lights Turned Off During the “Dark Ages?”
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    Chapter 6 The Renaissance: Daring to Challenge Traditional Wisdom
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    Chapter 7 The Enlightenment: How Far Did Reason and Religion Influence Health and Fitness in an Age of Industrialization?
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    Chapter 8 The Victorian Era: A Wealthier Society Offers New Recreational Possibilities, Especially to Women
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    Chapter 9 The Modern Era: Growing Health in the Face of Unemployment and War
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    Chapter 10 The Ludic Impulse: Why Did Early Societies Engage in Play?
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    Chapter 11 The Classical Olympic Movement: An Early Stimulus to Health and Fitness?
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    Chapter 12 The Modern Olympics: A Current Stimulus to Health and Fitness or a Five-Ring Circus?
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    Chapter 13 The Early Health Professionals – Unfettered Amateurs, Servants of the Gods or Wealthy Charlatans?
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    Chapter 14 Herb Gardens, Naturopathy and Human Health
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    Chapter 15 Bizarre By-ways in the Search for Good Health
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    Chapter 16 Caring for the Sick: Hospitals and Hospices
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    Chapter 17 The Emergence of Health Science Education
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    Chapter 18 Literature in the Search for Health and Fitness
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    Chapter 19 Teaching Health and Fitness to the Growing Child: The Physical Educator
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    Chapter 20 Co-opting Fitness and Sport for Political Objectives
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    Chapter 21 Governmental Involvement in Health Care and Health Promotion
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    Chapter 22 Building the Infrastructure and Regulations Needed for Public Health and Fitness
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    Chapter 23 Health and Fitness in Industry: The Development of Occupational Health
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    Chapter 24 Understanding the Root Causes of Ill-Health: The Emergence of Epidemiology, Bacteriology and Immunology
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    Chapter 25 The Feminine Touch in Health and Fitness
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    Chapter 26 The Emergence of Professional Associations and Journals in Health and Exercise Science
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    Chapter 27 The Growing Knowledge of Anatomy and Physiology Through to the Enlightenment
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    Chapter 28 Recent Gains in Knowledge of Anatomy and Physiology
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    Chapter 29 Exercise as Medicine in Antiquity and Today
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    Chapter 30 The Post-modern Era and Beyond: Meeting Future Challenges to Health and Fitness
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Title
A History of Health & Fitness: Implications for Policy Today
Published by
Springer International Publishing, January 2018
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-65097-5
ISBNs
978-3-31-965097-5, 978-3-31-965096-8
Authors

Roy J. Shephard, Shephard, Roy J.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 28 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 21%
Student > Master 5 18%
Student > Bachelor 2 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 4%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 12 43%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 4 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 7%
Social Sciences 2 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 4%
Other 4 14%
Unknown 12 43%