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BOOK REVIEW
Exercise physiology: people and ideas
Edited by Charles M Tipton. Oxford University Press, 2003, £69.50, pp 510, hardcover. ISBN 0195125274
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It is not often that one finds a systematic review of science history that reads like an exciting non-fiction novel, but Exercise physiology is just that. In fewer than 500 pages, a surprisingly in-depth story of the growth in the understanding of exercise physiology science is told. The authors trace the exciting journey of discovery—a journey that at times was painfully slow when centuries passed by in which no contributions to the field were made, and at other times when discovery and new ideas emerged with breath taking speed.
The splendid introductory chapter, Ancient and early influences, traces the development of the thought, ideas, and study of exercise physiology from Hippocrates to Austin Flint. The physiological concepts of Galen, the first sports medicine physician (he was physician to the gladiators at Pergamum), are described in
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