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Book review
Exercise physiology: people and ideas
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Edited by Charles M Tipton. Oxford University Press, 2003, £69.50, pp 510, hardcover. ISBN 0195125274
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 …