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ACSM’s Health and Physical Activity Reference Database
Search this on-line
database in either of the following ways:
Two databases of historical references related to Exercise,
Health and Fitness, and Physiology.
Enter keywords by which to search (including wild-cards) and view
bibliographic data. Exports to common bibliographic management programs
are also offered.
A Quick Reference table of major reference works throughout
history, arranged by date.
Clicking on any Author's name brings you to a printer-friendly page
containing abstract information from the work cited.
The American College of Sports Medicine Office
of Museum, History, and Archives is pleased to provide the Health and
Physical Activity Reference Database of articles and books published
over the past 200 years or more related generally, to the connection
between health and physical exercise and the early history of the
physiology of exercise. Most of the material was written in English
and was published in North
America. However, some material was published in
France,
Germany, and
England,
among a few other countries.
The references were selected from a large number of published
material and are by no means a complete listing. The
listings are divided into two distinct reference
databases. One, titled "Health and Physical
Activity", includes 3,131 separate citations to literature.
The second, titled "Exercise Physiology", includes 223
references from the literature.
The members of the Office of Museum, History, and Archives hope
these two searchable reference databases will be helpful to researchers
in the field, but warn that they are not exhaustive lists of the entire
published literature on these topics. Instead, they are
“selected” lists and should be supplemented by searching
other available databases.
Jack W. Berryman, Ph.D., FACSM
ACSM Historian
Chair,
ACSM Office of Museum, History, and Archives
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