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

by Roy J Shephard and Roy J. Shephard

Book Overview

This book examines the health/fitness interaction in an historical context. Beginning in primitive hunter-gatherer communities, where survival required adequate physical activity, it goes on to consider changes in health and physical activity at subsequent stages in the evolution of "civilization." It focuses on the health impacts of a growing understanding of medicine and physiology, and the emergence of a middle-class with the time and money...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319383639
• ISBN13: 9783319383637
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 1077 Pages
• Weight: 3.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"