1864 MERCURIALE, Girolamo (1530 – 1606); BLUNDELL, John Wilton Frankland (1820 – 1883)
The muscles and their story, from the earliest times: Including the whole text of Mercurialis, and the opinions of other writers, ancient and modern, on mental and bodily development
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8975 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11154
1989 VERTINSKY, Patricia A.
The eternally wounded woman: Women, doctors, and exercise in the late nineteenth century.
GMN 11907 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14112
1995 HAGELIN, Ove
Kinetic jottings: Rare and curious books in the library of the old Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics. An illustrated and annotated catalogue.
Outstanding descriptions and superb illustrations of a very unusual collection of books, including those on fencing, gymnastics, orthopedics, physical medicine, acrobatics, and dance.
GMN 7211 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9378
1997 ULMANN, Jacques
De la gymnastique aux sports modernes: Histoire des doctrines de l'éducation physique.
GMN 9371 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11554
1999 BERGDOLT, Klaus (1947 – )
Leib und Seele. Eine Kulturgeschichte des gesunden Lebens.
Translated into English by Jane Dewhurst as Wellbeing: A cultural history of healthy living (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008).
GMN 8511 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10688
1999 TODD, Jan (1952 – )
Physical culture & body beautiful: Purposive exercise in the lives of American women 1800-1875.
The author, a professor of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin, is a powerlifter who was once considered the strongest woman in the world.
GMN 10179 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12368
2008 MERCURIALE, Girolamo (1530 – 1606); NUTTON, Vivian (1943 – ); PENNUTO, Concetta
De arte gymnastica. The art of gymnastics. Critical edition by Concetta Pennuto. English translation by Vivian Nutton.
This critical edition, based upon the 1601 edition, the last edition published in Mercuriale's lifetime, includes the Latin text and English translation, reproductions of the woodcuts attributed to Coriolan and the or…
GMN 9370 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11553
2011 HEGGIE, Vanessa
A history of British sports medicine.
GMN 7541 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9713
2012 CARTER, Neil
Medicine, sport and the body: A historical perspective.
GMN 7628 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9800
2015 SHEPHARD, Roy Jesse (1929 – )
An illustrated history of health and fitness, from pre-History to our post-modern world.
1077 pages.
GMN 10119 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12308
