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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on-line database in either of the following ways: Two databases of historical
references related to Exercise, Health and Fitness, and Physiology.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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