Author: Niels Ebbesen BukhPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gymnastics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Fundamental Gymnastics; the Basis of Rational
Author: Niels Ebbesen BukhPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gymnastics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Primary Gymnastics
Author: Niels BukhPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gymnastics
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Slouch
Author: Beth LinkerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691235503
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America—from eugenics and posture pageants to today’s promoters of “paleo posture” In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century’s worth of nude “posture” photos of college students. In this riveting history, Beth Linker tells why these photos were only a small part of the incredible story of twentieth-century America’s largely forgotten posture panic—a decades-long episode in which it was widely accepted as scientific fact that Americans were suffering from an epidemic of bad posture, with potentially catastrophic health consequences. Tracing the rise and fall of this socially manufactured epidemic, Slouch also tells how this period continues to feed today’s widespread anxieties about posture. In the early twentieth century, the eugenics movement and fears of disability gave slouching a new scientific relevance. Bad posture came to be seen as an individual health threat, an affront to conventional race hierarchies, and a sign of American decline. What followed were massive efforts to measure, track, and prevent slouching and, later, back pain—campaigns that reached schools, workplaces, and beyond, from the creation of the American Posture League to posture pageants. The popularity of posture-enhancing products, such as girdles and lumbar supports, exploded, as did new fitness programs focused on postural muscles, such as Pilates and modern yoga. By 1970, student protests largely brought an end to school posture exams and photos, but many efforts to fight bad posture continued, despite a lack of scientific evidence. A compelling history that mixes seriousness and humor, Slouch is a unique and provocative account of the unexpected origins of our largely unquestioned ideas about bad posture.
Record of Current Educational Publications
Author: An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History to our Post-Modern World
Author: Roy J. ShephardPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319116711
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1095
Book Description
This book examines the health/fitness interaction in an historical context. Beginning in primitive hunter-gatherer communities, where survival required adequate physical activity, it goes on to consider changes in health and physical activity at subsequent stages in the evolution of “civilization.” It focuses on the health impacts of a growing understanding of medicine and physiology, and the emergence of a middle-class with the time and money to choose between active and passive leisure pursuits. The book reflects on urbanization and industrialization in relation to the need for public health measures, and the ever-diminishing physical demands of the work-place. It then evaluates the attitudes of prelates, politicians, philosophers and teachers at each stage of the process. Finally, the book explores professional and governmental initiatives to increase public involvement in active leisure through various school, worksite, recreational and sports programmes.
Record of Current Educational Publications
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Statistics of Land-grant Colleges and Universities
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 1314
Book Description
Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation
Author: American Physical Education Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Includes abstracts of magazine articles and "Book reviews".