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 the 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 of a Sedentary Lifestyle