Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History to our Post-Modern World

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.

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• História da medicina
• Saude pública e medicina preventiva
• História da Ciência
• Desportos e recreação ao ar livre
• Medicina das lesões desportivas

Athletic Abuses;Chivalrous Sports;Exercise Motivation;Exercise Science;Future of Health and Fitness;Health and Fitness in Prehistory;Health as a Gift of the Gods;Herbal Remedies;Hunter-gatherers;Obesity Epidemic;Olympic Games;Physical Education;Puritan Influences;Ritualized Sport;School Sports;Spectator Sport;Universal Health Care