Sports Medicine: Practical Guidelines for General Practice

Domhnall MacAuley

Butterworth

Heinemann

£23.50

pp 280

ISBN 0 7506 3730 7

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While the demand for education about sport and exercise medicine steadily increases, there is still a considerable reluctance among doctors to acknowledge it as a specialty, despite the provisional recognition shown recently by the Academy of the Royal Colleges. Doubters may be persuaded by the illuminating review of the history of medicine in sport that introduces this book—from the earliest records in ancient China of 2500 BC through to …