Mental Health, Gender, and the Rise of Sport

by Gerald R. Gems

Mental Health, Gender, and the Rise of Sport explores the historical role of sport in the prescription for mental and physical health through the epidemic of neurasthenia, a debilitating neurological disorder that afflicted American society throughout the latter nineteenth century. Gerald R. Gems argues that the practice of sport and sport spectatorship, which grew concomitantly with the onset and spread of neurasthenia, provided both a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 166695506X
• ISBN13: 9781666955064
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"