This book offers a comprehensive study, and social history, of the
development of sports medicine in Britain, as practised by British
doctors and on British athletes in national and international
settings. It takes as its focus the changing medical concept of the
'athletic body'. Athletes start the century as normal, healthy
citizens, and end up as potentially unhealthy physiological
'freaks', while the general public are increasingly urged to do
more exercise and play more sports. The book also considers the
origins and history of all the major institutions and organisations
of British sports medicine, and shows how they interacted with and
influenced international sports medicine and sporting events. As
well as being an important read for anyone interested in 'body
history', this volume will be essential reading for those studying
or researching the history of modern medicine, sports, or
twentieth-century Britain more generally. -- .
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