Output details
30 - History
De Montfort University
Book title
Medicine, Sport and the Body: A Historical Perspective
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN of book
9781849660679
Year of publication
2012
URL
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Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
This 115,000-word monograph, covering a timeframe from 1800 to 2000, originated from a Wellcome Trust grant on the history of sports medicine (2004-2007). It is the first book to incorporate histories of sport and medicine as it places the athletic body in the context of scientific and medical developments, the state’s role in the promotion of sport and physical culture and the changing nature of sport’s commercialisation. To achieve this narrative, a wide-range of primary source materials was gathered: records from 11 archives; 40 newspapers and periodicals were surveyed; a questionnaire elicited 32 responses and led to 20 oral interviews.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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