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A History of Health & Fitness: Implications for Policy Today / / by Roy J. Shephard
| A History of Health & Fitness: Implications for Policy Today / / by Roy J. Shephard |
| Autore | Shephard Roy J |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XVI, 516 p. 124 illus.) |
| Disciplina | 613 |
| Soggetto topico |
Health promotion
Biology—History Sports sciences Education—History Health Promotion and Disease Prevention History of Biology Sport Science History of Education |
| ISBN | 3-319-65097-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Those Pesky Dates: A Simple Time Line for the Evolution of Society -- Introduction -- Nomadic Populations -- Early Urban Civilizations -- The Classical Era -- The "Dark Ages"/Mediaeval Era -- The Renaissance -- The Enlightenment -- The Victorian Era -- The Modern Era -- The Post-modern Era -- Questions for Discussion -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 2: The Hunter-Gatherer Idyll -- Introduction -- Energy Demands of Hunting and Gathering -- The Issue of Rest Days -- Energy Demands of Games -- Resulting Levels of Health -- Resulting Levels of Fitness -- Attitudes to Health and Fitness -- Effects of Acculturation -- Attempts to Recreate the Hunter-Gatherer Lifestyle -- Practical Implications for Current Policy -- Questions for Discussion -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3: Irrigation and the Seductive Sedentary Lifestyle -- Introduction -- Daily Energy Expenditures -- Resulting Levels of Health -- Resulting Levels of Physical Fitness -- Attitudes to Health and Fitness -- Practical Implications for Current Policy -- Questions for Discussion -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4: Evolution of the Sedentary Lifestyle in Classical Culture -- Introduction -- Crete: The Minoan Culture -- Greek Civilizations -- Roman Civilization -- Practical Implications for Current Policy -- Questions for Discussion -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5: Were the Lights Turned Off During the "Dark Ages?" -- Introduction -- Economy and Government -- Sport and Fitness -- Health and Fitness -- Attitudes to Health and Fitness -- Practical Implications for Current Policy -- Questions for Discussion -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 6: The Renaissance: Daring to Challenge Traditional Wisdom -- Introduction -- Sports and Recreation -- Habitual Physical Activity.
Health and Fitness -- Practical Implications for Current Policy -- Questions for Discussion -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 7: The Enlightenment: How Far Did Reason and Religion Influence Health and Fitness in an Age of Industrialization? -- Introduction -- Habitual Physical Activity -- Sport and Recreation -- Water Sports -- Boxing -- Lacrosse -- Dancing -- Strolling -- Sedentary Recreation -- Physical Fitness -- Attitudes of Physicians, Scholars and Church Leaders -- Scholars -- Church Leaders -- Practical Implications for Current Policy -- Questions for Discussion -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 8: The Victorian Era: A Wealthier Society Offers New Recreational Possibilities, Especially to Women -- Introduction -- Physical Activity -- Sports and Recreation -- Water Sports -- Sedentary Recreation -- Health -- Physical Fitness -- Attitudes to Health and Fitness -- Politicians and Statesmen -- Practical Implications for Current Policy -- Questions for Discussion -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 9: The Modern Era: Growing Health in the Face of Unemployment and War -- Introduction -- Sport and Recreation -- Aquatic Activities -- New Forms of Team Sport -- New Forms of Individual Activity -- Sedentary Activities -- Health -- Nutritional Status -- Physical Activity -- The Assessment of Physical Fitness -- Attitudes to Health and Fitness -- Philosophers -- Practical Implications for Current Policy -- Questions for Discussion -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 10: The Ludic Impulse: Why Did Early Societies Engage in Play? -- Introduction -- Neolithic Societies -- Tarahumara Indians -- The Aztecs -- Mayan Civilization -- Inca Civilization -- Minoan and Etruscan Civilizations -- Mediaeval Europe -- Practical Implications for Society -- Questions for Discussion -- Conclusions -- Further Reading. Chapter 11: The Classical Olympic Movement: An Early Stimulus to Health and Fitness? -- Introduction -- The Classic Olympiad -- Other Major Athletic Contests in Classical Greece -- The Ideal of Amateurism in Classical Greece -- The Classical Greek Regimen of Athletic Training -- Nutrition of the Greek Athlete -- Age and Sex Categorization of Competitors -- The Problem of Athletic Injuries -- Death After Running a Marathon Distance: The Specific Case of Pheidippides -- Practical Implications for Current Policy -- Questions for Discussion -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 12: The Modern Olympics: A Current Stimulus to Health and Fitness or a Five-Ring Circus? -- Introduction -- Progression of Athletic Records -- Opportunities for Female Participation -- The Progressive Erosion of Amateurism in Olympic Sport -- Politicization of Olympic Competition -- Doping and Other Abuses of Olympic Competition -- Other Abuses of Fair Competition -- Costs and Benefits of Competition -- Is There a Health and Fitness Dividend? -- Other International Sports Events -- Practical Implications for Current Policy -- Questions for Discussion -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 13: The Early Health Professionals - Unfettered Amateurs, Servants of the Gods or Wealthy Charlatans? -- Introduction -- Egypt -- Israel -- India -- Classical Minoa and Greece -- Middle Ages -- Medical Care in the New World During the Enlightenment -- Professional Regulation -- Practical Implications for Current Policy -- Questions for Discussion -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 14: Herb Gardens, Naturopathy and Human Health -- Introduction -- Israel -- Minoans -- Mediaeval Era -- Practical Implications for Current Policy -- Questions for Discussion -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 15: Bizarre By-ways in the Search for Good Health -- Introduction. The King's Touch -- Tar Water -- Static Electricity, Magnetism and Electrical Shock Treatments -- Homeopathy -- Stimulation and Asthenia -- Hydrotherapy -- Naturism -- Anthroposophical Medicine -- Osteopathy -- Chiropractic -- Acupuncture -- Practical Implications for Current Policy -- Questions for Discussion -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 16: Caring for the Sick: Hospitals and Hospices -- Introduction -- Cappadocia -- Baghdad -- Mediaeval Europe -- Practical Implications for Current Policy -- Questions for Discussion -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 17: The Emergence of Health Science Education -- Introduction -- The Arab World and the Nestorian Connection -- Europe -- North America -- Practical Implications for Current Policy -- Questions for Discussion -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 18: Literature in the Search for Health and Fitness -- Introduction -- Development of General Medical Literature -- Texts of Sports Medicine, Health and Fitness -- Practical Implications for Current Policy -- Questions for Discussion -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 19: Teaching Health and Fitness to the Growing Child: The Physical Educator -- Introduction -- Physical Education in Ancient Persia -- Physical Education in Ancient India -- Physical Education in Classical Athens and Sparta -- Physical Education in Mediaeval Europe -- Physical Education During the Renaissance -- The Enlightenment -- Physical Education in the Victorian and Modern Eras -- Physical Education in the Post-modern Era -- Practical Implications for Current Policy -- Questions for Discussion -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 20: Co-opting Fitness and Sport for Political Objectives -- Introduction -- Italy -- Germany -- Russia -- Soviet Physical Activity and Sports Programmes for Adults -- France -- United States -- Britain -- Canada. Practical Implications for Current Policy -- Questions for Discussion -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 21: Governmental Involvement in Health Care and Health Promotion -- Introduction -- Health Care in the Arabic World -- Health Care in Mediaeval Europe -- Health Care in the Post-modern Era -- Improved Health Services and Life Expectancy -- Nazi Subversion of Medical Expertise -- Practical Implications for Current Policy -- Questions for Discussion -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 22: Building the Infrastructure and Regulations Needed for Public Health and Fitness -- Introduction -- Early History -- Classical Civilizations -- The Arab World -- Mediaeval Europe -- The Renaissance -- The Enlightenment -- The Victorian Era -- Current Challenges to Public Health -- Practical Implications for Current Policy -- Questions for Discussion -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 23: Health and Fitness in Industry: The Development of Occupational Health -- Introduction -- Early History -- The Twin Scourges of Slavery and Child Labour -- Occupational Physicians and Workplace Safety -- Health-Care Delivery in the Workplace -- Equal Opportunity Employment -- Health and Fitness of the Armed Forces -- Practical Implications for Current Policy -- Questions for Discussion -- Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Chapter 24: Understanding the Root Causes of Ill-Health: The Emergence of Epidemiology, Bacteriology and Immunology -- Introduction -- Epidemics Affecting Classical Civilizations -- The Renaissance Understanding of Epidemics -- Epidemics During the Enlightenment -- Beginnings of Epidemiology and Bacteriology During the Victorian Era -- Introduction of Chemotherapy, Antibiotics and Vaccines During the Modern Era -- Epidemics of Chronic Disease -- Immunology in the Post-modern Era -- Practical Implications for Current Policy. Questions for Discussion. |
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An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History to our Post-Modern World / / by Roy J. Shephard
| An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History to our Post-Modern World / / by Roy J. Shephard |
| Autore | Shephard Roy J |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1095 p.) |
| Disciplina |
306.483
5 509 613 614.44 616009 617.1027 |
| Collana | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science |
| Soggetto topico |
History
Medicine—History Sports sciences Health promotion Sports medicine History of Science History of Medicine Sport Science Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Sports Medicine |
| ISBN | 3-319-11671-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910483401103321 |
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Readiness for physical activity [[electronic resource] /] / Roy J. Shephard
| Readiness for physical activity [[electronic resource] /] / Roy J. Shephard |
| Autore | Shephard Roy J |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC : , : President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, , [1994] |
| Collana | Research digest. Series 1 |
| Soggetto topico |
Exercise - Health aspects - United States
Life expectancy - Health aspects - United States Physical education and training - Health aspects - United States |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910691742303321 |
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| Washington, DC : , : President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, , [1994] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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